Representative Pelosi seems to have pushed some non-zero percent of the population more toward President Trump & the GOP what with the tearing up of the SotU address papers on top of everything else. So that's just great! I mean thus far I subjectively do feel, as a pessimist, that we have the "empire" falling apart every which way. I try to listen to a range of AM radio talk shows during my commute hours, from the super 'liberal' side all the way over to the super 'conservative' side (so a mixed up soup of KPFA, KGO, KQED, Real Talk 910, 860 AM The Answer, KFAX, KKSF, KSFO, etc.) I do actually sympathize with each 'side' sometimes, and super disagree with all of them other times. Taking the two sides of politics in the USA to what the radio stations less-or-more-hyperbolically tell me are the logical ends, we are going to be choosing between socialists-cum-communists & nationalists-cum-fascists. I guess the human species "gets the future it deserves," greed having been the winning strategy. The whole, "I know, let's come down from the trees and start farming!" thing has given the Earth a very bum deal in the end. Hm, maybe if I just got myself some Disney+ then everything would be la la la all right.

Could there be any bigger UI/UX faux pas than the thing where I enter my user id and password, and it fails, so then I click on "forgot password" and the stupid thing makes me typing in my user name again? Man, I hate it when that happens.

TinkerCAD is so totally awesome!!!

Except for all the ways it is not.

I've been doing computers since... the ZX81. I've been through all the generations of Web stuff. I've worked at hot-name web startups. I've worked at giant massive juggernaut 600 pound gorilla megacorps. And across all that time and space, I have never ever ever never never never at all anywhere ever never never seen anything in the server side of web 'development' that wasn't just a complete unmitigated bare-assed transparently obvious in-your-face broken piece of utter fetid stinking dog turd junk when it comes to usability, to user experience.

None of the tools I've ever used (nginx, lighttpd, apache, tomcat, et. al.) have ever had anything approaching an actually usable, debuggable, sane, well documented, powerful, ecosystem. They just have crappy weird home-grown stupid awful configuration syntaxes (is that a word? oh well) and feed-forward-only development cycles.

But then the extra kicker is that all of that junk is sitting on top of all the horribleness that is everything else about the Web. Combine that horrible server-side UX with all the problems of web caches, browsers caching things, dns issues, etc. and I think it is pretty clear why all extraterrestrials have stayed right the hell away from this planet of complete buffoons.

Can there be
A greater Evil
Than a filesystem
That is case insensitive?

Amiga. Mac. ??? !!!






(yes i say that very 1st world tongue in cheek. i know eg about Yemen.)

The fact that (as far as I know) most computing hardware lacks mechanical physical real-world kill switches for microphones and cameras is super lame. Such an obviously desirable thing in this day and age. Almost makes you think there’s a nefarious reason such switches have not happened.