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#2This is so spot on.
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#3I try to be positive. People still choose to interpret my writing as negative, but that’s very much on them. I’m not a negative person, despite the circus that is Life in the Twenty-First Century.
I was a troll. A fairly nasty one, and I feel the need to atone. No excuses. I just don’t do that, anymore.
My formula tends to be specific, in praise (and as much of that, as possible), and vague, in criticism (and as little of that, as possible). It does earn me some sneers, from this crowd, but I’m really too long in the tooth, to be ruled by personal insecurities. I continue to do it, and the occasional insult won’t stop me, or provoke me into retaliating.
I’m a pretty good coder. I write code every day, and just about everything I write, ships. I open a significant part of it[0]. I feel that I do it well, and would rather lead by example, than complain about others. Just feels better, to me.
Kindness and empathy almost seem like lost arts, these days, and that really is a shame. I know that I played a small part in establishing that culture, and hope to play a small part in reversing it.
Personally, I hold myself to excruciatingly high standards, but I really only worry about others, if I use their work. Life’s too short, to be obsessed with the motes in the eyes.
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#4Honestly urge most people, especially in tech to read something like Nonviolent Communication. There is a way to communicate your care that doesn't have you come off as an angry asshole. I'm guilty of it, I'm an asshole even when I don't mean to be and even when I mean to be I probably shouldn't. But everyone can do better.
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#5Everyone can see that today's UX experience is needlessly slow and buggy. I don't think that's a surprise to people who care about UX. And most people (your average joe) don't care about UX. This article is only being read by people who care about UX, and they already know how bad everything is. It reads just a bit like a rant and it's a bit like doomscrolling news. What would be interesting is a take on fixing this.
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#6Everyone can see that today's UX experience is needlessly slow and buggy. I don't think that's a surprise to people who care about UX. And most people (your average joe) don't care about UX. This article is only being read by people who care about UX, and they already know how bad everything is. It reads just a bit like a rant and it's a bit like doomscrolling news. What would be interesting is a take on fixing this.
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#7One of the top things that I want in a job is coworkers who care obsessively.
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#8This is everywhere, with everything. I watch a house inspector youtube channel, and there's a ton of horrible hacks and stuff that doesn't work in house construction. If you're not the person to invent a new technology to make it better, then it's better to just not complain publicly about it, because you're just adding to the noise.
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#9Web and modern tech can be fantastic if you take away the dark patterns. The UX for booking a flight isn't complex because reserving a seat or taking your card is difficult. It's complex because low margin businesses like airlines can make more money up-selling extra legroom or travel insurance.
Take away the dark patterns and incentive to eek every last dollar from the user and the entire web can be neal.fun.
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#10I feel like a lot of the problems with web UX come from browsers never natively implementing even basic functionality needed for many web apps, like comboboxes, menus, tab panels, etc. Then there's the endless layers of fiddly work needed to make accessibility work cross-platform (check out all the work Adobe puts into the react-aria project for an example), and that there's still fundamentally no browser-native no-JS way to submit a form and use the response without loading the whole page again...