the hard way

blogger in ios 26 safari (well, at least with lockdown) is a broken thing. eg the new post composing ui interacts badly with the software keyboard. the kind of broken crap you could never predict. the kind of bugs that i guess come from too many disparate things interacting. the idea that we could ever have real, open, flexible, robust software components wrt ui/ux is empirically impossible.

indictments are everywhere - the rules that prove the exceptions. text completion is broken ux too often. text selection is broken ux too often. undo is broken ux too often. menus & commands are broken ux too often. all claimed interops (e.g. using Apple iOS mail app with Gmail servers) is broken ux too often. Scroll bars. Text entry fields. Bluetooth. USB. Key remapping. WiFi. Most anything related to network failures. etc.

We cannot, empirically, solve any of these problems. IT WILL ONLY STEADILY GET EVER WORSE, if we understand anything from the history of last two decades in tech. Well, until we do it all via subvocal AI-driven UI, i guess.