yaml

is a four-letter word. 

markdown

the ability to define a standard that is never twice the same standard. 

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.

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.

wet paper bag

apple is kind of not good any more (for decades). 

e.g. ios wallet ui ux is just awful. 

the dog dies

so, in a nutshell, "the odyssey" can be summed up in the same fashion as "turner & hooch". 

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. 

scum and villany

ios still forces browser autoplay fullscreen videos. 

lies and damned lies

not to throw shade based on an N of one, but Insurify seemed utterly pointless. Just a personal info grab that always spits out, "Progressive". Avoid. 

oy veh

ubuntu can't even just shutdown promptly. 

TYOTLD

printing is a "funny joke" on linux. 

eating digital cake

apple ui ux is really quite awful. 

kinda depressing. 

hilarious consequences

ecommerce is a fail. even amazon sucks, except for all others. but hotels really take the ux fail cake.

all is full of fail

tcl roku tv playing amazon prime video app. 

if i ffwd at all, it cannot resume successfully.  been this way for months.

(of course all after suffering through ads rando all the time.)

and if i go "back" it loses the scroll position in the list so i can't easily try to play the same item again?!?!

what a living ux hell. it makes me so frustrated that these are our main options for streaming. i mean, modt-all other suck even worse  in other rando ways.  

badtubebad

 youtube on ios still has like just the worst ui. 

southworst

 the inflight entertainment app is ux dog poop. 

the fact that nobody checks bags now so deplaning takes 10x longer really sucks. 

oh and lining up to board is still a mini hunger games.  

and it feels like they shrank the legroom by an inch again.

infotainment

dunno about the 2026 models, but 2023-and-on Toyota infotainment UX is just complete GARBAGE from any kind of self-respecting UX perspective. 

technology: bad

it ain't just, "the number of the beast."

it also the terrible user experience. 

litany of complaints

i thought only jerky web page designers did low-contrast foreground text vs. background color. but i have come across books with ink that was not really sufficiently dark. maybe they just cheaped out on printing? "The PEN / O. Henry Prize Stories 2010". 

cars usa

 it is 2026 

are American cars any good yet?