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I agree. It's in the uncanny valley territory for me because things like the layout, structure and information hierarchy have modern sensibilities but then it has a shotgun blast of retro paint and the vibe just feels a little bit off.

This is a common frustration in Australia with the ABN (business numbers), they are 11 digits but commonly shown with spaces, including on the ABN registry. However many sites have the 11 character limit.

It would be the most beautiful, elegant, well-designed and thoroughly hardened network I'm certain. I get it, the software I'm complaining about was designed for profit.

The point I'm trying to make is imagine you have to tell a customer that they can't keep using the network design they have, which fits their requirements almost perfectly, because it's too much burden for your network engineers to maintain. Instead, the customer can use this other network design that is suitable for the average customer. So it works, but not as well as before, and the customer will probably need to find some workarounds or shift other processes to accommodate. It's just shit.

I'm not sure there's anything I dislike more than "the average user" because so much good software has been destroyed because of it.

This reminds me of a tool I vibed with v0 a few months back: https://v0-yaerd.vercel.app. I created it because I hadn't seen a tool before that could interpret Laravel migration files and create ERDs from them, then prompted basic SQL support into it as well.

I wouldn't call it completely broken; Pressing buttons still does something, it looks like an OR filter instead of an AND. It should be updated to be an AND filter as that's more intuitive.

My website is at https://mulquin.com

I used to care that I wasn't "writing enough" and that I spent more time tinkering with the code than making content. But the reality is that I'm the main audience and that anxiety was coming from potential perception of others.

Tinker away tinkerers!

Non-paywalled: https://archive.md/7DyNA

To be pedantic, it is still a conspiracy, just no longer a theory.

I found it cute until I realised it didn't disappear when you let it finish shrinking, nor if you click the little blue square. Then I found myself annoyed by it and left the page.

Continuing the confessions: I do php.net/<function_name> at least twice a day

Is there a way for you to split the configuration out into a separate file? That way you can tell it to explicitly ignore it altogether.

They do it intentionally to annoy you in particular.

Non-paywall link: https://archive.md/SpAV5

To be fair, the blog post does not explicitly say anywhere that the week was for bug fixes only.

Roblox has already begun to roll something out. I’m anticipating about 6-12 months we’ll start hearing news about privacy concerns and all these photos of children have been leaked.

They will most likely utilise some sort of system where a photo or short video are uploaded and an AI will make a determination of age. It’s not going to be accurate but will probably be compliant enough.

Not interested in trying something that will be killed shortly.

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic about enshittification being a fading fad. I'm seeing non-technical people start to use it now.

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The design looks like it was made in a day with v0, that’s why it feels soul-less. It uses typical Vercel-esque design language.