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Cake day: November 7th, 2024

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  • As a web developer it’s when people want me to code ridiculous things because they don’t know how to use files, their OS or their web browser.

    Recently someone complained to me that they’d like a dropdown to be sorted a very specific way (rather than alphabetical) because it’s “too hard” to scroll through the undesired options. They don’t realize that by doing that you would no longer be able to correctly tab into the field then type the first few letters of the desired option.

    Or another user who reported that emailing documents wasn’t working because he could no longer email them to himself through the website. He could’ve simply downloaded the document using another link (right next to the email sending link) but refused to do so because he doesn’t know how to handle the file after downloading.


  • People who take a screenshot instead of sending a link. I don’t want to see your crusty shitphone or Windows UI, thank you very much.

    Or, as a web developer: users who take a screenshot of a problem but completely exclude the URL and/or any other identifier I’d need to actually find the relevant record(s) so I can hope to reproduce the problem and find its cause.


  • Office on macOS in general. Shit looks horrible, it doesn’t respect the OS it’s running on:

    1. Command + click on the title of a window (document) doesn’t reveal it in Finder
    2. Cannot rename an open document (what in the Windows 95 is this shit?)
    3. The Open/Save dialogs are soooo huge and sloppy
    4. The huge IE 6.0-style toolbars with tabs are fucking atrocious
    5. Some updater bullshit that runs in the background all the time and doesn’t use the trusty traditional framework or the App Store

    Happy I don’t need to swap .docx files anymore, I do everything in Numbers and Pages these days.