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   ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Dec-2025 10:19:09 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

   my definition of "an UI bug" is basically "any design or implementation choice that makes users miserable". i do not think many in open source hardware|software share this definition and i won't be satisfied until it's a new norm

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     cassie (porglezomp@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Dec-2025 10:59:13 JST cassie

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     @whitequark one of the things I like most about the rust compiler is it seems like people have managed to get this philosophy in place there for the most part

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Dec-2025 11:00:43 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @porglezomp this is one of the big reasons i stick with Rust even if i criticize it a _lot_.

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     cliffordheath (cliffordheath@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Dec-2025 13:46:50 JST cliffordheath

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     @whitequark I go a step further and say that a UI fails whenever a user can't figure out what to do next or how to do it

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Dec-2025 14:04:10 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @cliffordheath oh I can figure out what to do with KiCAD all right. it just makes me want to drink bleach when I have to perform these steps

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     cliffordheath (cliffordheath@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Dec-2025 14:39:34 JST cliffordheath

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     @whitequark ok, that's a design bug, not the more usual implementation bug. Worse, I guess, because it was done deliberately!

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     🐜 (antdude@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 28-Dec-2025 04:06:45 JST 🐜

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     @whitequark it's not just opensource too.

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     🐜 (antdude@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 28-Dec-2025 04:07:38 JST 🐜

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     @whitequark it's not just opensource too.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 28-Dec-2025 05:47:20 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @antdude no, but open source is uniquely susceptible to the "don't you remember it was built by volunteers? be happy you can get anything done at all" issue