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I have one:
I hate that browsers (except Firefox) won’t let me copy a column of data from a table on a webpage. It’s 2025, most tables are going to be data these days, not layout.
MacOS
In my house I have Apple branded hardware running:
Mac OS
Mac OS X Server
Mac OS X
OS X
macOS
iOS
iPad OS
tvOS
watchOS
homeOS
audioOS
And now I’ll have the strange honor of having two Macs, one running Mac OS X Server 1.23 and one running macOS 26.
MacOS
Big one, but I've had a few people who admit that it's shit. It's shit but it's just enough to get the job done/get out of your way, As long as you play by its rules
MacOS
Related. Apple is turning into Sony with their naming of stuff. In my house I have Apple branded hardware running: Mac OS Mac OS X Server Mac OS X OS X macOS iOS iPad OS tvOS watchOS homeOS audioOS And now I’ll have the strange honor of having two Macs, one running Mac OS X Server 1.23 and one running macOS 26.
Git. Most people have no need for 95 percent of its features and don't have a good mental model of how it works. Just copy and paste commands to get it to work, more or less.
Maybe we’ll have more agentic SCM that auto solves merges and all that fun stuff in the future. But for now we are stuck with a pretty challenging piece of software
MacOS
Related. Apple is turning into Sony with their naming of stuff. In my house I have Apple branded hardware running: Mac OS Mac OS X Server Mac OS X OS X macOS iOS iPad OS tvOS watchOS homeOS audioOS And now I’ll have the strange honor of having two Macs, one running Mac OS X Server 1.23 and one running macOS 26.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)
Hey, you should pick up some carrier-grade Cisco routers and switches, and run IOS to tie 'em all together!
JIRA gets a lot of deserved hate but I think nearly all software work tracking systems suffer from the same issue: marketing over promises about velocity and predictions about project delivery timelines. Have we as an industry gotten any better at delivering projects on time? If you have a lot of dysfunction in your organization no software is going to fix that. Or to put it another way, you can’t solve people proble…
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Related. Apple is turning into Sony with their naming of stuff. In my house I have Apple branded hardware running: Mac OS Mac OS X Server Mac OS X OS X macOS iOS iPad OS tvOS watchOS homeOS audioOS And now I’ll have the strange honor of having two Macs, one running Mac OS X Server 1.23 and one running macOS 26.
Why is naming an OS differently when it is actually a different OS with shared features?
JIRA gets a lot of deserved hate but I think nearly all software work tracking systems suffer from the same issue: marketing over promises about velocity and predictions about project delivery timelines. Have we as an industry gotten any better at delivering projects on time? If you have a lot of dysfunction in your organization no software is going to fix that. Or to put it another way, you can’t solve people proble…
I’ve never worked on a team where any nontrivial task could be done by any two people in roughly the same amount of time.
Experience, skill, subject area familiarity — everyone is different.
It is utter madness to estimate sprints before assigning the work!
Git. Most people have no need for 95 percent of its features and don't have a good mental model of how it works. Just copy and paste commands to get it to work, more or less.