I get the praise for Excel. It's a remarkably useful software. But we don't talk enough about it being 2026, Excel still associates itself with the *.csv extension, even though it never manages to properly read CSV without any user intervention, which it doesn't offer on double-clicking such a file.
Agreeing with everything! And I also cross my fingers for the teased piece on (or yelling at) JPA, because it sounds like even more I would keep agreeing to 😁
It really should exist some hacker activist group or something which one could report online harassment to, and they would then track down the harasser and make their life miserable.
I thought I "got" product development, and it being the next evolution of iterative development/exploring/learning, always work on the right problem. Then I learned it can be simplified to agile development, and _include_ corporate interests, and suddenly it makes sense why all software become shit.
Den norske varianten av QED etter en litt middels forberedt argumentrekke er “sååå…. Ja."
Youngstorget med den opplyste orange fasaden bak buene ved Basarhallene langs den ene siden ser veldig fint ut i høstmørket. Hvor ligger avgjørelsen om at å gjøre det om til telt- og parkeringsplass i store deler av oktober er fett? Sånn med tanke på fremtidige kommunevalg.
Going by divide as "separate", as in separately defined processes & tools dictates individuals and interactions instead of individuals deciding this themselves, I am taking a guess at current state-of-the-art peak enterprise software-based product development. The stuff you hear about from Gartner.
The reason you need to measure and collect feedback on the most trivial things, and be ready to improve the UI, is that even though you prominently display a button on your landing page, without need for scrolling, which says “Do X”, users will still complain they are not able to find where to do X.
Would be refreshing if instead of answering questions by _not_ actually answering, politicians instead said something in the line of “you are now touching on a dark and unfortunate consequence of our politics and values, so I am not comfortable to give an honest answer on this matter”.
Siste act jeg oppdaget var Emma-Jean Thackray. Funky og rart! Og fett! Kom over det da jeg handlet nyeste Galliano-albumet og browset litt på labelen brownswood.ochre.store, og det ble dermed med i shopping-carten.
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The ideal with flat, “clean”, no texture, no illusion of depth, “Material Design” UIs emerged because of corporate need to be spend less money on building visuals. Not from any wish to build better and more intuitive UX for end-users.
If anything referring to existing or potential software appears in your OKR, you are probably not doing OKR, but instead upfront enumerating tasks you plan to do over the coarse of few next months. I.e. old-style planning you have probably acknowledged to be sub-effective since you attempt at OKR.
Your irregular reminder that, even in languages where nullability is not captured by the type system, using an empty String as the absence of a String is worse than using null.
So a colleague ordered some stuff, and discovered that the carrier was UPS. Instead of struggling with UPS failing their core business (a.k.a. delivering) she just immediately opted for the return fee for the store. Imagine delivering a service in such a manner people would pay to avoid it.
Er det en slags variant av supertrikset med “forsinket” tam-fill? Altså at fillet som tradisjonelt brukes som overgang/oppbygging til neste periode, spilles faktisk ikke før enern i perioden det skal lede til, også lander man typisk på crash (og skarp) på toern, og grooven fortsetter således derfra?
This really strikes a chord with me, because it is just yet another variant of the same pattern all over again. And it fascinates me how some gets really emotional when I propose that product teams may benefit with also having ops/platform experts as actual team members.
Sounds familiar? Not that many years ago, developers needed to be "shielded" from the business and their users and customers, because that world is so chaotic, and development is complicated, expensive, and time-consuming enough. We must optimize for developers to focus on their craft in isolation.
What I am curious about, and also open to being an issue, is that the tooling offered by the big cloud platform providers, is so bad, and so low level, that you need this extra layer of protection and "abstraction" from them before your runtime environment is exposed to devs on your product teams.
Years and years ago we had teams to make Web frameworks on top of Web frameworks. Eventually we figured out that it is harmful to base applications on badly designed in-house tech scaffolds.
Now we make platforms on top of platforms instead.
It is equally possible to use arguably “better” tooling that may be more aligned with modern and effective software/product dev practices, and still be task-oriented. The difference is in to what degree a tool “drives” status quo of obsolete practice. No tool is neutral in affecting human behavior.
The main problem with Jira is not that it is bad software, although it is enshittified beyond belief. The issue is focusing on tasks _in a development and innovation context_ and using tools that enforce and/or make it hard to leave this mindset, and Jira excels at this.
Er det så ekstremt å ønske død over noen som utfører folkemord? Ser at det spørres retorisk hva man ville gjort om man hang opp et hakekors. Sannsynligvis ville folk forlatt konsert før arrangør vil t.o.m rekke å stoppe den. Ville mosaisk trossamf. reagert om man ønsket død over nazister fra scenen?
Awesome talk, thank you! I admittedly haven’t read the book, but on numerous occasions I have thought “Wait, what?” when being presented with arguments citing this book.
So many SoMe apps I wouldn’t care if were regulated into oblivion by consumer rights laws. But it also fascinates me how many people are genuinely surprised and outraged when the apps they use for free use dark UX patterns to try making their income source (typically ads) more effective.
Two 8BitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless game controllers, only difference one is purple and another is black. Also shows that they identify themselves as exactly the same device in a device index on a computer, making it impossible to tell them apart.
I need to study this.
The smartass who came up with the brilliant idea to make localized versions of Visual Basic and spreadsheet formulas, is today working in the company who makes the search input field in emoji selectors 💀
Har lagt til meg vanen å bare ta med flaskepant fortløpende på så og si alle turer på butikken. Senest i dag pantet jeg 2 flasker. Det er ca 0 mer effort enn å ikke ta de med, og da slipper jeg følelsen og tidsbruken av "pant som aktivitet" fordi det bygger seg aldri opp store lass med flaskepant.
Been following Alveus Sanctuary for a while on YouTube. Really relaxing faith-in-humanity-restored type of content.
I was actually looking forward to exploring what various artists and bands I take interest in are posting on IG, but seems I have to not be too eager, or I might upset the shitty algorithms that supposedly detect shady activity. What a joke.
Legitimate users got a crippled version of the program, and those chosing to pirate it (I do not condone that at all) got a way better version than the people who paid for it. It was also some who paid for the software, as you should, and used the crack to unlock the full performance.
