#modernsoftware

2025-11-25

Modern UX is so trash across the board. I shouldn't have this much trouble figuring out where I can safely click on a window's title bar to focus it now that title bars are stuffed with buttons, or to discover what fields in a view are scrollable now that scroll bars are verboten, or to even tell what on a view is clickable or not since styling makes links look like normal text and buttons look like anything but buttons (or even makes active buttons look disabled). Don't even get me started on the mobile "where do I need to hold, double tap, drag, or swipe to do what I want to do" mystery box.

Not a fan of any Windows version, but circa Windows 98, at least you could look at a view and know exactly what you could interact with and how. Now Windows, MacOS, and GTK/Gnome all do the same confusing crap in the name of "minimalism" at the cost of usability and discoverability.

#UX #UI #ModernSoftware #Rant

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2025-10-02

The new version of Chrome is bad beyond all belief. Here is a site with all the Linux deb versions.

Download your current Chrome now. I think I'm finally moving back to Firefox for work usage.

mirror.cs.uchicago.edu/google-






N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-06-06

Ah, the age-old debate: , the eternal promise of liberation from technical drudgery, 🤖 only to ensnare you in a labyrinth of dependencies, mystery fees, and mind-numbing decision fatigue. 😵‍💫 But hey, at least your vendor lock-in now comes with a sleek, modern logo and the illusion of choice. 🎨✨
rwsdk.com/blog/saas-is-just-ve

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2025-03-07






Notion's help is so bad I had no choice just then but to use the built-in AI to add a field to a page.

We're all fucked.

2024-12-29

Every product manager: "I bet users would love to have this feature..." (something annoying)

Every user: "Why the fuck did they make things worse..."

#modernsoftware #softwaredevelopment

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2024-10-10

Excellent article (with grammos) on why CSS was and remains one of the biggest bullshit things ever to hit software.

msandrini.medium.com/css-the-w

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2024-10-02

I see yt-dlp is about to fuck itself again.

It is requiring a Python 3.9 upgrade but the upgrade path is messy and has new requirements that haven't been worked out.

Also this means it will stop working on Win7 without a hack.

Why do nerds hate hate hate backwards compatibility and safe upgrading so so so very much?

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2024-10-01

HEY! VIRGIN MONEY JUST GOT BETTER!

THEY SAY!

Even though the app is still crap and there's no web portal yet.

But better, they say!!

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2024-09-19

Out of the blue, I can no longer cast from my android device to my android TV

It's just embarrassing, modern software

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2024-09-17

Make this up

"Pagers carried by thousands of Hezbollah operatives exploded at about the same time Tuesday afternoon in what appeared to be an unprecedented attack that authorities said injured almost 2,800 and killed nine across Lebanon."

msn.com/en-us/news/world/explo

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2024-09-06

Life as an old software developer.

Stares at discussion, chin in hand, weary half-eyelids-closed gaze.

"Yeah, you're all wrong," I say to myself.

Then I tick Approved, because the decades it will take them to learn why they're wrong are not something I have in my back pocket.

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2024-09-05

Jira really is a lot like whacking yourself in the genitals with barbed wire!

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2024-08-30

The Client will lie about what was agreed. But often the agreement was more ambiguous than anyone realised. This is a rare case where meetings can help!

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2024-08-26

Fuck Linux is SHIT at dealing with zombie processes. Honestly it's easier to kill errant processes in Windows. There, I said it.

Wonder if the 6 series kernel is any better in this regard.

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2024-08-21

Modern web development is just a silly game.

I get paid to play a silly game.

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2024-08-08

I have a book open now.

How long are we giving Telstra to re-enable 3g after they shut it down, because it turns out a heap of critical services still depend on it?

MegatronicThronBanksmegatronicthronbanks
2024-08-06

I've just made a lot of money today fighting with the Fucking Stupid Framework instead of solving the problem!
Yay!

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