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author | nathan <nathansmith@disroot.org> | 2025-08-07 14:38:27 -0600 |
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committer | nathan <nathansmith@disroot.org> | 2025-08-07 14:38:27 -0600 |
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diff --git a/org/blog/articles/the-software-design-crisis.xml b/org/blog/articles/the-software-design-crisis.xml index fbce77a..7e31b9a 100644 --- a/org/blog/articles/the-software-design-crisis.xml +++ b/org/blog/articles/the-software-design-crisis.xml @@ -1,8 +1,13 @@ <article> - Have you ever had an update for a piece of software that removes features - without any usable replacement or way to get it back? What about options - being pulled from the setting? Don't get me started on desktop software using - mobile UI design. + <p> + <b>Warning: this is more of a roast if anything</b> + </p> + <p> + Have you ever had an update for a piece of software that removes features + without any usable replacement or way to get it back? What about options + being pulled from the setting? Don't get me started on desktop software + using mobile UI design. + </p> <h3>Mobile UI design leaking into desktop space</h3> <p> @@ -32,11 +37,13 @@ can change what they want. For separate mobile and desktop interfaces use a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller" target="_blank">model-view-controller</a>. <b>The UI is nearly how the - user interacts with the program, not the program itself.</b> CMV allows you + user interacts with the program, not the program itself.</b> MVC allows you to isolated different parts of your program making it more flexible. Before - you go saying CMV is too difficult I had a teacher who made us use CMV in a + you go saying MVC is too difficult I had a teacher who made us use MVC in a beginner course with some students who never programmed before. By the end - we were all able to design and make software this way. + we were all able to design and make software this way. What do you tell + users on closed source platforms that actively make development harder? + <b>Go fuck yourself.</b> </p> <h3>The web</h3> @@ -62,5 +69,31 @@ <h3>GNOMEism</h3> <p> + Gnome is a desktop envirtment that is pretty much standard on linux. A + while back they said <a href="https://stopthemingmy.app/" target="_blank"> + please don't theme our apps</a>. Sounds a lot like the entitled chef thing + I brought up rofl. Someone made + <a href="https://webb.is-a.dev/do-not-resize/" target="_blank"> + do not resize our windows</a> + as a parody of gnome. People thought it was real because <b>it strangely + sounds like something gnome developers would actually say</b>. Gnome tries + to strike a fine balance between mobile and desktop platforms and ends up + failing at both. Want to know what linux desktop has the most amount of + forks? Its gnome! Sure that's a given since its the most common desktop but + just compare it to kde forks for a sense of scale. + </p> + + <h3>Accessibly</h3> + <p> + This isn't really something most developers think of yet is one of the most + important things in software development. You software developers are all + dumb fucks but please stay away from doing anything hacky on the UI + side. It can really fuck over things like screen readers. <b>The UI is + nearly how the user interacts with the program, not the program itself.</b> + Just pick a UI toolkit that fits your needs and use it in a sane manner and + things will work correctly. Software developers a lot like web developers + but not to the same degree create problems for themselves that once fixed + created two more problems. When accessibly is already low on their list and + that is how they work things will for sure be a shit show. </p> </article> |