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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 06:01:25 JST josef -
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 21:23:53 JST josef i swear at some point in the golden age of whatever, organizations had departments which handled the things those organizations did, so that the organizations could do those things properly, or indeed at all. now i suppose the idea of 'doing things' at all is considered a 'cost center'
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 21:23:53 JST josef the other day i was round at my dad's trying to get his internet connection fixed and the guy that was booked to come round just didn't show up. eventually we called them up and the customer service person said "he's written on the note here that he's not comfortable paying the parking fee for his van" so he just drove away because there was no free parking nearby. and like. what is going on. do BT not reimburse their engineers. are they just franchisees?? why has everything got to be like this
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 01:09:09 JST josef have you ever closed the cover of a large, hardback book? like a coffee-table book, but with a hard cover? when you let the book close, there's kind of a cushion of air that gets expelled from between the pages as it shuts. it's very subtle, but it kind of slows down the motion of the pages for the last fraction of a second before they meet. that's the best way i can describe it. a kind of animation latency penalty. the exact opposite of like, snappy gamefeel character animation
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 01:09:09 JST josef maybe it reads to mac users as the feeling of quality. i got used to it pretty quickly. but now after not using a mac for years, whenever i go back to one, i'm like "oh yeah! the weird delay that's on everything. wow everything feels so weighty. so important"
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 01:09:09 JST josef i was a mac user for almost a decade. one of the things that made me give it up and go back to windows&linux was like. so many UI interactions on the operating system feel like they have a kinda built-in delay whenever you trigger them. keyboard shortcuts in finder, mouse clicks, etc. unlike windows or linux which either respond instantly to stuff or have an aggravatingly long and random wait. the Mac Delay is completely consistent, probably something like 150ms. creates a kind of 'heavy' feel
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 21:48:15 JST josef i totally understand it from a developer point of view, and it makes total sense that these things are the way they are, but from a user's point of view, it's bizarre that so much software now is either "released but not actually done yet" or "completely done but they still keep fucking with it for some reason"
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 21:47:45 JST josef i'm really quite strongly soured on the idea of "new versions of software" these days. the only computer program i've used in the last 10 years which ever had an update that added features that were useful to me, or improved the program, has been Blender. almost every other update i've ever experienced has, in the best case, provided extremely marginal and unnoticeable benefits, or more likely made something worse, or even broken something on my computer
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 21:19:06 JST josef theres all these programming languages arent there. like ones with strong opinions on memory management, or typing, or metaprogramming, or side-effect purity, or whatever. but i feel like all of those things solve really "programming language"-level problems, the kind of problems people who design programming languages care about. none of them solve the kind of issues that seem to cause vast majority of the actual problems, like e.g. "programmer doesn't understand the problem domain"
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 20:00:48 JST josef new animal idea: cat oxen
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 20:00:47 JST josef *extremely herodotus voice* theres just not much point travelling more than a few hundred miles from this point because the number of flying snakes increases exponentially. eventually there's just too many flying snakes and it just fucks your boat, you can't progress any further, the air is just thick with them
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 22:02:08 JST josef imagine a hex editor where instead of a cursor, you control a little guy who walks around the rows and columns and can increment individual bytes by inflating them with a pump. could call it digdebug
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 17:01:41 JST josef every new and successively more inane javascript framework that came out in the last 15 years was another salvo for google's embrace-extend strategy to "make the web so Fucked Up that the task of creating a browser with less than 30 million lines of code becomes impossible", and you all fell for it! maybe like 9 web developers pushed back against the 25,000 monthly blog posts extolling the virtues of yet another new way to do something on a computer which they had already solved at xerox in 1977
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 17:01:41 JST josef firefox is like windows nowadays, where youre constantly having to disable new fucked up shit they've just introduced. like some kind of spying or a peggle extreme advert or something. what a scam. anyone who tells you its a 'good' browser at this stage is kind of a mark imo
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 15:54:51 JST josef SD card stands for "sloppy disk"
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 18:24:23 JST josef Windows [ _ ] [ □ ] [ ✖ ]
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 17:15:25 JST josef i never want to update my computer
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 16:59:36 JST josef overjoyed by any potential news event with enough broad reach to successfully demonstrate to non-tech people that computers are indeed bad
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 05:15:56 JST josef finally, a replacement for our nation's tired & outdated capital
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2024 04:38:05 JST josef that apple ad where they crush everything right. it was an abominable mistake on their part, it's given everyone a clear visual metaphor for what's wrong: smartphones can do everything, but as a jack-of-all-trades they can't do anything particularly well. whenever you're using a phone you're having a constant low-level, subliminal feeling of disappointment, a nagging feeling that if you were using the actual proper device to do the thing you want to do, you'd be having a better time