Night of the Living Duh
we're not fugazi (they're way harder)
Thursday, July 30, 2026
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
history rhymes with "gulag"
https://theconversation.com/how-canadas-freedom-convoy-was-overtaken-by-a-radical-fringe-176111
The shorthand to igniting a protest is: fear to anger to leadership to action. In other words, a fearful person often becomes an angry person demanding quick action that is provided through exploitative leadership.
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
strewth
> How many edge cases does this payment flow actually have? Hundreds. How many of them have we handled? Twelve. Do we want to see the other ones listed explicitly in a graph, staring back at us? Absolutely not. That would make the gap between what we've built and what we need undeniable, and denial is how we get through the day.
Sunday, July 19, 2026
wet paper bag
apple is kind of not good any more (for decades).
e.g. ios wallet ui ux is just awful.
Saturday, July 18, 2026
the dog dies
Friday, July 17, 2026
e3y
seems like most computer systems are nigh the enemy of accessibility.
like, it is one thing to not support ARIA types of things: sins of omission.
but then there's the crap somebody had to actively pursue, had to work hard to implement, that is just evil and dumb and anti-user. things like a user interface that has icons with no labels, and then has heavily animated hover tooltips.