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diff --git a/org/blog/articles/the-software-design-crisis.txt b/org/blog/articles/the-software-design-crisis.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 96b0ede..0000000 --- a/org/blog/articles/the-software-design-crisis.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,85 +0,0 @@ -**Warning: this is more of a roast if anything** - -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. - -### Mobile UI design leaking into desktop space - -Mobile phones are operated with touch screen, and have screens that are small -and taller than they are wide. Desktops are operated with a keyboard and -mouse, and have large screens that are wider than they are tall. Because of -that, its quite safe to say that **software optimized for one platform isnt't -so great on another**. Are you still following? Likely not, but if you are -consider this: why do many modern desktop programs look like mobile apps? Some -of them are mobile apps ported to desktop though many of them don't even work -on mobile. The answers are modern UX, the web, and _GNOMEism_. - -### Modern UX - -**Modern UX isn't about making professional software. It's about making -software that looks like it was made by a professional.** This means flat -interfaces and lack of customization. Modern developers are like super -entitled chefs. "How dare you put table salt on a meal that is already -perfect", "ketchup? what are you a picky eater?!"... They act like your lucky -for even getting a dark and light mode when the toolkits they use have -themeing. Yes, I know adding more options makes it difficult to debug but hear -me out: all the basic things can be in the settings menu while everything else -can be in a config file or interface similar to _about:config_. The normies -get their easy settings while power users can change what they want. For -separate mobile and desktop interfaces use a [model-view- -controller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller). -**The UI is nearly how the user interacts with the program, not the program -itself.** MVC allows you to isolated different parts of your program making it -more flexible. Before 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. What -do you tell users on closed source platforms that actively make development -harder? **Go fuck yourself.** - -### The web - -The web uses html, css, and javascript. The first two being usable standards -for creating webpages, and the third being a buggy programming language -integrated into the first two. Many developers decided to use those to make -software since its cross platform and doesn't require the user to install -their software. Though web apps have issues with bandwidth, security, and -integration into operating systems. They encouraged mass produced slop. Web -architecture has spyware built in by design by governments and corporations. -The fixes include disabling javascript, cookies, webrtc, webgl... Though these -are things web apps depend on, **because its spyware by design**. This website -doesn't depend on those things. All it needs is html and optional css. This -ties into modern UX design since web developers like to define new standards -that are worse than the long standing ones. What about new standards that are -better than the old ones? Web developers never do that. This is because **web -developers aren't software engineers yet their choices effect the software -development world since they create much of the software normies use which -creates expectations for what modern software should look like**. - -### GNOMEism - -Gnome is a desktop envirtment that is pretty much standard on linux. A while -back they said [ please don't theme our apps](https://stopthemingmy.app/). -Sounds a lot like the entitled chef thing I brought up rofl. Someone made [ do -not resize our windows](https://webb.is-a.dev/do-not-resize/) as a parody of -gnome. People thought it was real because **it strangely sounds like something -gnome developers would actually say**. 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. - -### Accessibly - -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. **The UI is nearly how the user -interacts with the program, not the program itself.** 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. - |