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   Adrian Howard (adrianh@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 02:37:19 JST Adrian Howard

   I swear there used to be a time when my reaction to new software features wasn't a resigned sigh followed by figuring out how to switch it off.

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     Colin the Mathmo (colinthemathmo@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 15:57:24 JST Colin the Mathmo

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     @adrianh I have a clear memory of my father going to his office one day to order his medical supplies for the next month.

     "They've redesigned the web site!" ... he called to us.

     "How does it look?" asked my mother.

     "Really good" he replied.

     She followed up ... "Can you find what you need?"

     There was a long pause.

     ...

     "No".

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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 08:45:14 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     @adrianh everything went sideways when applications became able to self update online.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 08:47:35 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Polychrome :blabcat:
     @Polychrome @adrianh reminds me of how many times I wished we could just package (and so mod) webapps locally and spawn them in the browser later.
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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 08:50:32 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     • Andrew
     @cinebox @adrianh wow that really is good UX, I'm saving it for future reference.
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     Andrew (cinebox@masto.hackers.town)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 08:50:38 JST Andrew

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     @ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.(xyz @adrianh actually the McMaster website looks *really good* IMO. Props to their web team)

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     Andrew (cinebox@masto.hackers.town)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 08:50:40 JST Andrew

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     • Colin the Mathmo

     @ColinTheMathmo @adrianh all websites should be like digikey or McMaster Carr. Everything is parametrically searchable and the company logo is inexplicably a 64x100 jpeg