From f748cdb4d72d9f1761bc5aab3987bcaf40357a5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: nathan Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2025 14:38:27 -0600 Subject: Software design blog done --- org/blog/feed.xml | 109 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 109 insertions(+) (limited to 'org/blog/feed.xml') diff --git a/org/blog/feed.xml b/org/blog/feed.xml index db31428..6d3942b 100644 --- a/org/blog/feed.xml +++ b/org/blog/feed.xml @@ -10,6 +10,115 @@ https://shittyweb.org/blog + + The software design crisis + https://shittyweb.org/blog#software-design + Thu, 07 Aug 2025 20:37:38 GMT + + +

+ Warning: this is more of a roast if anything +

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+ 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. +

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Mobile UI design leaking into desktop space

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+ 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. +

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Modern UX

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+ 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. 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. +

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The web

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+ 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. +

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GNOMEism

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+ Gnome is a desktop envirtment that is pretty much standard on linux. A + while back they said + please don't theme our apps. Sounds a lot like the entitled chef thing + I brought up rofl. Someone made + + do not resize our windows + 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. +

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Accessibly

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+ 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. +

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