91–100 of 270 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
A non-zero number of websites have followed web twitter in making '?' produce a hotkey display. Naturally tumblr isn't one of them.
Except now how am I supposed to know '?' brings up this display?
Most commands anyway. I'm looking at you, netcat
True story: One day, Windows wouldn't let me type the letter p. I was trying to log back in from the Windows lock screen. Typed my password, got it wrong. Typed it again, got it wrong. Eventually got locked out of my account, despite being extremely careful to type my password correctly. Went to IT and had them unlock my account... Went back to my PC and tried to log in again. Typed my password very carefully, letter…
Windows 10 has this funny bug where sometimes for some reason your individual windows don't get focus any more. You can click at their title bar, and they'll be drawn as-if they have focus (darker shadow and foreground titlebar), but no window actually accepts or processes any user input (while updating normally in the background, and also redrawing). The only way I know how to fix this is to go into the Ctrl+Alt+Del…
> the same site that then fixed that bug and forced all blog descriptions to be utf-8, but then implemented size limits as a number of bytes. > so they truncated mid-utf-8 character, which made parsing the XML A REAL FUN TASK LET ME TELL YOU How is this a problem unless you do UTF-8 validation when parsing the XML, in which case stop doing that for data you don't control.
If you truncate a UTF-8 string mid-character, then can’t that sequence swallow the next byte, such as <, which would break XML parsing completely?
These hotkeys in websites are an utter curse. So many times I've started typing in Jira, then something weird happened that caused my keystrokes to be interpreted by the page instead of entered into a comment box ... then the ticket gets reopened, unassigned, etc.
What's scarier is that at some point Clarion got support to publish software as websites... Maybe Tumblr is written in clarion.
Edit: Currently I am here:
"and my favorite part of this is that every time tumblr has fucked up and created some weird bug, the user base almost immediately weaponizes it."
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except now how am I supposed to know '?' brings up this display?
The same way you know you can run any command with `--help`. Most commands anyway. I'm looking at you, netcat
True story: One day, Windows wouldn't let me type the letter p. I was trying to log back in from the Windows lock screen. Typed my password, got it wrong. Typed it again, got it wrong. Eventually got locked out of my account, despite being extremely careful to type my password correctly. Went to IT and had them unlock my account... Went back to my PC and tried to log in again. Typed my password very carefully, letter…
(thinking your CTRL key was stuck and activating the print shortcut, but unplugging the keyboard rules that out)
True story: One day, Windows wouldn't let me type the letter p. I was trying to log back in from the Windows lock screen. Typed my password, got it wrong. Typed it again, got it wrong. Eventually got locked out of my account, despite being extremely careful to type my password correctly. Went to IT and had them unlock my account... Went back to my PC and tried to log in again. Typed my password very carefully, letter…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except now how am I supposed to know '?' brings up this display?
The same way you know you can run any command with `--help`. Most commands anyway. I'm looking at you, netcat
Either way, even an extremely imperfectly honoured convention is better than no convention at all.