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Article 10

And now it works again in Safari. Meanwhile, my business bank's login doesn't work in Safari any more.Starting to think Safari is the problem, but not because of Apple Hates the Web™, but because Apple...

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Article 9

The tl;dr of this long read https://naildrivin5.com/blog/2022/09/06/actual-reasons-to-use-tdd.html is• As devs, software we ship should do what we expect it do• Thus, you have to check it• Manually...

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Article 8

I was there when all this happened. XML for everything. Why have proprietary databases when you could have an XML database? Why have tabs in your Makefile when you could use XML? Why use a dynamic...

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Article 7

I am begging designers to stop creating custom drop-downs. BEGGING. They never work and the built-in ones are fine.I would also ask designers to understand the difference between a UI that someone MUST...

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Article 6

I've spent a good part of today interacting with US healthcare websites (all kinds, from insurance to providers).Epic/MyChart is an eyesore, but it functions far far better than anything else.A...

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Article 5

The new top entry in my UX enemies list is:Phone Number field that requires only numbers but WILL accept non-numbers and will also not strip them and is also limited to 10 characters.Meaning, if I...

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My next enemy after that isDate Field That Likely Needs a Date Way In The Past That Will Not Let You Type The Date (this is my bank's UI, brought to you by some VC-funded team with great DevEx)After...

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Article 3

It is not lost on me that a lot of Designers-Run-Amok with web forms is that browsers all seem to insist on really shit styling for many speciality fields (date, number, etc) and drop downs/combo...

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New one:Set of text fields where Tab advances to the next field (good) and Shift-Tab…also advances to the next field.Which means they implemented tab navigation in JavaScript but don't know how it is...

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I'm filling out an emergency contact in the _third_ patient portal related to a Medstar visit.Question Q: "What is your emergency contact’s gender?” What possible use is this?

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Then they ask for my insurance cards. Which they have. And have used to bill my insurance. So, I'm just gonna not do this intake paperwork and will be unsurprised to learn it didn't matter at all.

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Angel list emails me a link to give feedback on a former employer. The link is to send grid so who the fuck knows what it is. I instead log into my account. I see no mention of this request or even...

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Should also mention that Angellist’s login is to immediately exfiltrate a login link to my email without my permission despite having a password based login....

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The Acolyte Rando ThoughtsI read that the fight scenes in The Acolyte were actually performed by the actors, but they look absolutely dreadful. They look CGI-i-fied to speed them up. There are a few...

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How to sign into the Veteran's Administration:1 - Choose from "new VA sign in", "MyHealthyVet only", or "choose a secure sign-in partner”. [ you can't choose, you have to remember how your account is...

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Article 19

Kelsey DOES NOT BELIEVE Siri does anything easily.This would be more credible if they held a funeral for Siri and came up with a new name.#WWDC

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Article 18

It remains to be seen if Siri can set an alarm.#WWDC

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Article 17

This “Rewrite" stuff is like…kinda terrible, but I guess they had to do it.I make a lot of typos and mistakes when I type, but I very much care about stuff I write to be written in a certain way. I...

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Article 16

Apple Intelligence absolutely cannot understand your email. I wish techboyz would stop saying this.It is not lost on me that the guy doing this part of it is the bro-iest Gen-Z-iest one they got back...

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Article 15

NGL, I'm excited to create 😻 but for dogs.#WWDC

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