People seemed to be having fun in the snow in Parc Jarry.
These two snow-covered trees stand by the frozen pond in Parc Jarry.
People don’t let the snow stop them from walking their dog.
People like to crow about how this operating system is more user-friendly than that one but, in my experience, the worst usability and user experience problems people encounter these days is because of the nightmarish cascade of ‘cloud’ thingamabobs that hooks everything together
Electron-based apps have a bunch of baked in flaws:
- a few big accessibility flaws
- security issues from using an outdated Chrome
- don’t feel native
But Electron has also let a few developers make great apps that are available on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Which is not nothing
“It Is Unethical To Teach Evolution Without Confronting Racism And Sexism – The Evolution Institute”
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes x1000.
After watching trade publishing for too long, it’s obvious by now that many in publishing don’t really care about sales. They want enough sales to keep going. What they really care about is control over mainstream and intellectual culture. Control is more important that profit
Seeing all of these discussions on ethics in software development, I’m reminded of a rule of thumb I heard used regarding fraud during the 2008 crash:
Any field that obsesses over ‘ethics’ as a topic independent of the work is probably doing something very unethical in that work
“Brutalism’s comeback: web design and the art movement”
“I would rather have bad design on the Internet than just one kind of design!”
I agree.
A bunch of lightweight but useful polyfills covering important parts of the JS stack
“Redesigning your product and website for dark mode — Stuff & Nonsense”
“Implementing a variable font with fallback web fonts – Zeichenschatz”
An interesting side effect of not cross-posting to Mastodon anymore and instead relying just on micro.blog’s ActivityPub implementation is that I don’t get notified of favs or boosts anymore. Honestly, it’s kind of liberating. Replies are the only interactions that matter.
“Michael Tsai - Blog - Amazement at iOS Cursor Movement Shortcut Says a Lot About Discoverability”
Touch UIs are really bad at discoverability.
“Amazon’s Website Has Tons Of Errors. Somehow It Doesn’t Matter.”
Amazon is a mess and for a lot of products it’s the worst option available but a lot of these issue are probably unavoidable at their scale. Maybe big stores just suck?
“Ethics won’t make software engineering better – Doteveryone – Medium”
Straight people’s interpretations of George Michael’s ‘Father Figure’ are quite something at times.
Current office temperature is 16 degrees C, because the roof above us has no insulation, because the landlord forgot that construction work in Montréal winter might be problematic. 😑
“SHE-RA’s Queer Rep Might Be Too Subtle — The Beat”
I may have said before that I’m a huge fan of Noelle Stevenson’s work, and I’m saying it again.
“Regret-stergram – DHH – Medium”
I stopped posting to instagram a while back as well. All I felt was relief.
I’d rather not work on ‘hard, meaningful problems’. I’d much prefer to work on easy, meaningful problems: relatively small issues that only exist for bullshit reasons and are fairly simple technically. There’s a ton of these.
Unfortunately, hard problems are what gets funded.