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From: nathan <nathansmith@disroot.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2025 14:38:27 -0600
Subject: Software design blog done

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+    <li><a href="#software-design">The software design crisis</a></li>
     <li><a href="#depression">Depression</a></li>
     <li><a href="#current-state-of-crypto">The current state of crypto</a></li>
     <li><a href="#things-i-say">Things I say</a></li>
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+  <div class="article-header">
+    <h2 id="software-design">The software design crisis</h2>--- Thu, 07 Aug 2025 20:37:38 GMT
+  </div>
+
+  <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>
+    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 <b>software optimized for
+    one platform isnt't so great on another</b>. 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 <i>GNOMEism</i>.
+  </p>
+
+  <h3>Modern UX</h3>
+  <p>
+    <b>Modern UX isn't about making professional software. It's about making
+    software that looks like it was made by a professional.</b> 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
+    <i>about:config</i>. The normies get their easy settings while power users
+    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> 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?
+    <b>Go fuck yourself.</b>
+  </p>
+
+  <h3>The web</h3>
+  <p>
+    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, <b>because its spyware by design</b>. 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 <b>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</b>.
+  </p>
+
+  <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>
+
+</div>
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     <h2 id="depression">Depression</h2>--- Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:38:49 GMT
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