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Yeah, I doubt all those interests are genuinely legitimate.

Recently I have on two occasions experienced smaller record artists who release a new album, I buy it on the date of release, and then shortly after they announce a limited edition or even an alternative variant of the record with a couple additional songs on it, and I think it is such a dick move.

I consider adopting the principle that any service which when accessing it by a direct link to a resource, if it sends me on a detour, e.g. to log in or anything else, and afterwards it fails to proceed to the resource I was initially navigating to, I will completly abandon using this service.

If you run a video platform, any time you put this in my fyp, I will click and watch it to the end. Every. Time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q_7... @gamegrumps.bsky.social

Opening Spotify to control Spotify already running on another device. When selecting the other device, it will immediately start playing. Just from selecting where to play. The digital products we hail as best of breed, look up to and emulate are so fucking bad, and we need to call that out more.

So tired of AI advocates from the basis that a dev works by picking a feature request, then builds it, and AI is good b/c it largely decreases the cost of that activity. That is not how to build software products, and if you do follow this workflow, coding is certainly not "the most expensive part".

With streaming services you can do stuff like play, pause, skip, and queue up stuff. Basic stuff that Winamp managed to get right in the late 90s. Functionality a CD-player managed to handle before that. Which makes it very adorable that @youtubesupport.bsky.social is a paid service.

With tokens getting more expensive, there are efforts put into automating use of different models for different tasks to optimize costs. More moving parts, more things to fail. Our profession has potential to contribute to good, but as engineers we keep solving problems created by engineers instead.

Quote a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap. The Cherry Bombs www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bhe...

I just searched one half of a now defunct duo, wondering what he's currently doing. The summary given by Google informs he works as a music producer, and also currently serving a 2 year jail sentence. Had to do a second search to specifically “ask” if this is the same person. It is not. I hate AI.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the solution to product teams enjoying "enablement" from any "enablement" teams, but still not able to deliver value at a desired pace, is _not_ to scale up any "enablement" teams.

Omg, slutt å bring inn YtRiNgSfRiHeT hver eneste gang noen kritiserer utsagnene dine! Ingen nekter deg å si det du sier, du blir ikke fengslet, du blir ikke forfulgt. Du er bare et rasshøl. Argumenter gjerne hvorfor du ikke er et rasshøl selv om du sier ting som rasshøl sier.

I think we are now at the point where we don’t need to qualify AI with “slop” anymore, this can safely be assumed to be the case when referring only to “AI". I propose instead to further qualify the cases of AI actually providing positive effects, shouldn’t wear down your keyboard too much.

Så på spørsmål om videoer uegnet for barn som blir tilgjengeliggjort på YouTube Kids, så svarer YouTube at disse videoene NRK har sendt screenshots av fra YouTube Kids har aldri vært tilgjengelige på YouTube Kids. Nei, da så 🤷 www.nrk.no/vestfoldogte...

Gøy aprilsnarr fra @vygruppen.bsky.social 🤣🤣🤣

So with AI we managed to shift the focus from "how can we ensure our output creates most value, and if our output actually solves problems in the best possible way" securely back into "we must measure how much output we produce".

I get the praise for Excel. It's a remarkably useful software. But we don't talk enough about it being 2026, Excel still associates itself with the *.csv extension, even though it never manages to properly read CSV without any user intervention, which it doesn't offer on double-clicking such a file.

It really should exist some hacker activist group or something which one could report online harassment to, and they would then track down the harasser and make their life miserable.

I thought I "got" product development, and it being the next evolution of iterative development/exploring/learning, always work on the right problem. Then I learned it can be simplified to agile development, and _include_ corporate interests, and suddenly it makes sense why all software become shit.

Den norske varianten av QED etter en litt middels forberedt argumentrekke er “sååå…. Ja."

Youngstorget med den opplyste orange fasaden bak buene ved Basarhallene langs den ene siden ser veldig fint ut i høstmørket. Hvor ligger avgjørelsen om at å gjøre det om til telt- og parkeringsplass i store deler av oktober er fett? Sånn med tanke på fremtidige kommunevalg.

The reason you need to measure and collect feedback on the most trivial things, and be ready to improve the UI, is that even though you prominently display a button on your landing page, without need for scrolling, which says “Do X”, users will still complain they are not able to find where to do X.

Would be refreshing if instead of answering questions by _not_ actually answering, politicians instead said something in the line of “you are now touching on a dark and unfortunate consequence of our politics and values, so I am not comfortable to give an honest answer on this matter”.

The ideal with flat, “clean”, no texture, no illusion of depth, “Material Design” UIs emerged because of corporate need to be spend less money on building visuals. Not from any wish to build better and more intuitive UX for end-users.

If anything referring to existing or potential software appears in your OKR, you are probably not doing OKR, but instead upfront enumerating tasks you plan to do over the coarse of few next months. I.e. old-style planning you have probably acknowledged to be sub-effective since you attempt at OKR.

Your irregular reminder that, even in languages where nullability is not captured by the type system, using an empty String as the absence of a String is worse than using null.

So a colleague ordered some stuff, and discovered that the carrier was UPS. Instead of struggling with UPS failing their core business (a.k.a. delivering) she just immediately opted for the return fee for the store. Imagine delivering a service in such a manner people would pay to avoid it.

Er det så ekstremt å ønske død over noen som utfører folkemord? Ser at det spørres retorisk hva man ville gjort om man hang opp et hakekors. Sannsynligvis ville folk forlatt konsert før arrangør vil t.o.m rekke å stoppe den. Ville mosaisk trossamf. reagert om man ønsket død over nazister fra scenen?

So many SoMe apps I wouldn’t care if were regulated into oblivion by consumer rights laws. But it also fascinates me how many people are genuinely surprised and outraged when the apps they use for free use dark UX patterns to try making their income source (typically ads) more effective.

The smartass who came up with the brilliant idea to make localized versions of Visual Basic and spreadsheet formulas, is today working in the company who makes the search input field in emoji selectors 💀

Had a @cinemassacre.bsky.social “Just walk over it” moment. Revisited a 3yo hack I used PowerMock for some weird test conditions. Want to get rid of PwrMock, tried to adjust my approach, other reflection hacks, no avail. Then it dawned how I could just used regular language facilities all the time 🤬

One of my Java pet peeves is the method names for _empty_ Lists and Sets are just “of” with no args. “Oh, if not applicable, just pass a list of.” “Of? OF WHAT??” Would prefer either List.empty() or even List.emptyList(). I tend to statically import Collections.emptyList(), because it reads better.

If devs were given the tools and facilities to model their data with the exact shape required for each context the data is used, instead of encouraging one single model to rule them (the often misunderstood "core domain"), LazyLoadingExceptions would not even be a thing.

In an act of desperation, today I reached for JDK dynamic proxies to solve a "frameworky” problem. Last time I did this was 2013. Got the proxy to work as intended, but luckily it was still not quite applicable for the problem, so had to abandon it. Eventually solved with regular static facilities 😮‍💨

Upgraded production to Java 24 today! #deploy-on-friday

Jeg kaster alltid litt opp i munnen min nå når jeg hører politikere innlede et svar med “Dette handler om”. Kan man ikke gi argumenter og resonnementer i stedet for å ty til å sette en slags følelsesmessig kontekst? Dette retoriske grepet er noe som har kommet de siste årene, er det ikke?

Når du tror at NRK ikke kan bevege seg lenger bort fra vedtektene om å være bl.a. "kilde til innsikt, refleksjon, opplevelse og kunnskap gjennom programmer av høy kvalitet” og “bidra til økt kunnskap om internasjonale forhold”, så smeller’em til med med å ha Ole Asbjørn Ness som deltaker i Debatten.

It may just be that my first muting frenzy on @bsky.app will be people using X screenshots to seed their posting here like "oh, look at this stupid thing they say on X". I know X is stupid. I know the X owner is a fucking numbnut. I am not interested in X content. That's why I stopped using X.