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    <dc:date>2026-01-20T16:30:56+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The other day I was asked to update the visual design of radio buttons in a web app at work. I figured it couldn't be that complicated. It's just a radio button right?
via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688971]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Reading Empire of AI by Karen Hao, I was struck by how people associated with OpenAI believe in AGI. They really do think someone, perhaps them, will build AGI, and that it will lead to either the flourishing or destruction of humanity.
via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45926469#45927945
Includes simonw debunk about AI water usage, and massive derail.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Stay signed in?" etc]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If someone recommends Brave to you, you should ignore them, because they are wrong. Brave Browser is a mess of a software project, and the company building it is even worse.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We feel a bit like the newspapers before the internet came.
Like the CD sellers before streaming took over.
Like the film cameras when DSLRs hit the market.

We know we’ll have to adapt — but it still hurts to watch something you’ve been building for years collapse like a house of cards in less than a year.

So we’re sorry, but we’re just not motivated to keep writing guides when all we see is that the content gets… stolen? Borrowed? Used? I don’t even know what to call it anymore. 🤷‍♀️]]></description>
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    <title>America’s semiconductor boom [video] | Hacker News</title>
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    <link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45611735</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I found an interesting thread on the /r/semiconductors subreddit discussing what it is like to work at TSMC]]></description>
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    <title>Free Software hasn't won</title>
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    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is a translated version of a talk I gave at P.I.W.O in June, with cleanups and adjustments for the blog form.
via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45562286]]></description>
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    <title>Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs after sales allegedly plummet | Hacker News</title>
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    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As someone else mentioned here, I'd wager a large part of Synology customers were people who'd have had the technical ability to setup their own NAS server but didn't want to bother, instead electing a "setup and forget" solution. I know that's who I was when I bought my first Syno DS several years ago.

A few months ago I realized I'd outgrown it so I looked into the next Synology solutions, and all I saw were overpriced, outdated hardware that weren't worth DSM's ease of use. Got Ubiquiti's UNAS with a couple of HDDs, a Beelink mini PC, and for a little time and roughly the same budget of a DS, got something far superior in specs and basically matching in ease of use.]]></description>
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    <title>Agnishom Chattopadhyay | an opinionated critique of duolingo</title>
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    <link>https://isomorphism.xyz/blog/2025/duolingo/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[During the stay-at-home grim days of 2020, I started learning Spanish on Duolingo. Having a working understanding of Spanish seemed like a sensible first step towards opening a taco truck in Mexico, in case I had to run away from my doctoral studies. This July, after about 5 years I decided to end the 1800 day streak that I managed to drag on with numerous streak freezes and minimal effort lessons. While Spanish words look less foreign, and with some focus, I am able to decipher small paragraphs of grammatically simple sentences; the effort was less than a smashing success – I certainly could not be writing this essay in Spanish.
Via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45425061]]></description>
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    <title>Greatest irony of the AI age: Humans being increasingly hired to clean AI slop - Sify</title>
    <dc:date>2025-09-24T10:50:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.sify.com/ai-analytics/greatest-irony-of-the-ai-age-humans-being-increasingly-hired-to-clean-ai-slop/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On one side is AI swallowing millions of jobs, and on the other is humans being hired to clean up the nonsense AI often generates, finds Satyen K. Bordoloi]]></description>
<dc:subject>AI GenAI slop rant ChatGPT viral tiktok</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:69ead4bb43f1/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://io.bikegremlin.com/38062/youtube-is-working-as-intended/">
    <title>YouTube is working as intended | BikeGremlin I/O</title>
    <dc:date>2025-08-19T15:53:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://io.bikegremlin.com/38062/youtube-is-working-as-intended/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The platform isn’t built to reward creativity, insight, or originality. It’s built to maximize the (in)famous “user engagement” and anything that keeps users watching longer, clicking more, or reacting faster gets pushed to the top. AI didn’t change that – it just made it more efficient.
Goes well with this: https://youtu.be/QEJpZjg8GuA?si=F-TrBF_EcJSYheKI]]></description>
<dc:subject>youtube rant algorithm</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJpZjg8GuA">
    <title>Algorithms are breaking how we think - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-08-19T15:52:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJpZjg8GuA</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This surely won't make me seem like a crank.]]></description>
<dc:subject>youtube rant algorithm capitalism technology skinnerbox skinner</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:60e0facd7513/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://linktaco.com/blog/why-pinboard-falls-short-what-we-built-instead.html">
    <title>Why Pinboard Falls Short and What We Built Instead | LinkTaco Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2025-08-07T18:08:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://linktaco.com/blog/why-pinboard-falls-short-what-we-built-instead.html</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Many users seem to believe that it is no longer supported or worth the small yearly fee due to lack of support and maintenance. Majec would ignore support requests, and some users claim be fairly rude or nonchalant when finally answering support requests. The general vibe, at least on HN/Reddit/Fediverse/etc., seems to be that Pinboard is no longer a product that should be used. Here are a bunch of examples from HN with just a quick search.]]></description>
<dc:subject>pinboard bookmarking alternative LinkTaco maciej rant</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://lambdaland.org/posts/2025-08-04_artifical_inanity/">
    <title>AI stands for “Artificial Inanity” | Lambda Land</title>
    <dc:date>2025-08-05T15:45:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://lambdaland.org/posts/2025-08-04_artifical_inanity/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When I read technical documents, I read to understand the content. In this mode of reading, I operate under the assumption that the author had a reason for choosing the words they did, and that every sentence is there to convey something that the author wishes me to understand.
Intent is the core thing: the lack of intent is what makes reading AI-slop so revolting. There needs to be a human intent—human will and human care—behind everything that is demanded of our care and attention.
via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44797917]]></description>
<dc:subject>AI LLM rant hackernews</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/microsoftteams/chat-window-opens-on-top-of-meeting-window-when-clicking-on-teams-icon-in-dock-m/4133204">
    <title>Chat window opens on top of meeting window when clicking on Teams icon in dock (MacOS) | Microsoft Community Hub</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-03T15:54:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/microsoftteams/chat-window-opens-on-top-of-meeting-window-when-clicking-on-teams-icon-in-dock-m/4133204</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When I'm on a Teams video call and I'm working on another app, if I click the Teams icon in the MacOS dock, it brings up the Teams chat window on top of the Teams video call window. So I have to minimise the chat window to see the video window.]]></description>
<dc:subject>teams microsoft annoyance rant</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://x.com/i/web/status/1156312965265707013">
    <title>Joe Pettersson on X: &quot;I saw a tweet asking why sometimes when you unsubscribe from an email list it says it can ‘take a few days’. Buckle up, as I have a RIDICULOUS story about this happening in The Enterprise™️...&quot; / X</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-28T17:20:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://x.com/i/web/status/1156312965265707013</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I saw a tweet asking why sometimes when you unsubscribe from an email list it says it can ‘take a few days’. Buckle up, as I have a RIDICULOUS story about this happening in The Enterprise™️...]]></description>
<dc:subject>pepe donkey unsubscribe twitter email rant</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43976557">
    <title>Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode | Hacker News</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-14T13:24:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43976557</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode (wired.com)]]></description>
<dc:subject>airbnb hackernews rant</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43542131">
    <title>The case against conversational interfaces | Hacker News</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-01T09:35:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43542131</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This clearly elucidated a number of things I've tried to explain to people who are so excited about "conversations" with computers. The example I've used (with varying levels of effectiveness) was to get someone to think about driving their car by only talking to it. Not a self driving car that does the driving for you, but telling it things like: turn, accelerate, stop, slow down, speed up, put on the blinker, turn off the blinker, etc. It would be annoying and painful and you couldn't talk to your passenger while you were "driving" because that might make the car do something weird. My point, and I think it was the author's as well, is that you aren't "conversing" with your computer, you are making it do what you want. There are simpler, faster, and more effective ways to do that then to talk at it with natural language.

Humane AI failed not only because of terrible execution, the whole assumption of voice being a superior interface (and trying to invent something beyond smartphones) was flawed.

> Theoretically, saying, “order an Uber to airport” seems like the easiest way to accomplish the task. But is it? What kind of Uber? UberXL, UberGo? There’s a 1.5x surge pricing. Acceptable? Is the pickup point correct? What would be easier, resolving each of those queries through a computer asking questions, or taking a quick look yourself on the app?

> Another example is food ordering. What would you prefer, going through the menu from tens of restaurants yourself or constantly nudging the AI for the desired option? Technological improvement can only help so much here since users themselves don’t clearly know what they want.]]></description>
<dc:subject>VUI voice UI rant hackernews</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://julian.digital/2025/03/27/the-case-against-conversational-interfaces/">
    <title>The case against conversational interfaces « julian.digital</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-01T09:14:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://julian.digital/2025/03/27/the-case-against-conversational-interfaces/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We keep telling ourselves that previous voice interfaces like Alexa or Siri didn’t succeed because the underlying AI wasn’t smart enough, but that’s only half of the story. The core problem was never the quality of the output function, but the inconvenience of the input function: A natural language prompt like “Hey Google, what’s the weather in San Francisco today?” just takes 10x longer than simply tapping the weather app on your homescreen.
via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43542131]]></description>
<dc:subject>VUI startrek chat conversational rant hackernews</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://drewdevault.com/2023/08/29/2023-08-29-AI-crap.html">
    <title>AI crap</title>
    <dc:date>2024-08-05T10:29:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://drewdevault.com/2023/08/29/2023-08-29-AI-crap.html</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There is a machine learning bubble, but the technology is here to stay. Once the bubble pops, the world will be changed by machine learning. But it will probably be crappier, not better.]]></description>
<dc:subject>ai culture future capitalism machinelearning rant GenAI AGI</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.metafilter.com/204168/ChatGPT-is-bullshit#8575247">
    <title>ChatGPT is bullshit | MetaFilter</title>
    <dc:date>2024-07-17T09:29:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.metafilter.com/204168/ChatGPT-is-bullshit#8575247</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Using bullshit as a term of art (as defined by Harry G. Frankfurt), ChatGPT and its various LLM cohort can best be described as bullshit machines.
 Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs. We distinguish two ways in which the models can be said to be bullshitters, and argue that they clearly meet at least one of these definitions. We further argue that describing AI misrepresentations as bullshit is both a more useful and more accurate way of predicting and discussing the behaviour of these systems.

 From a boss / manager's point of view, the way LLMs produce utter bullshit with effortless fluency is the most wonderful thing about them.]]></description>
<dc:subject>AI GenAI chatGPT Metafilter rant discussion</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.metafilter.com/204168/ChatGPT-is-bullshit">
    <title>ChatGPT is bullshit | MetaFilter</title>
    <dc:date>2024-07-16T15:09:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.metafilter.com/204168/ChatGPT-is-bullshit</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Using bullshit as a term of art (as defined by Harry G. Frankfurt), ChatGPT and its various LLM cohort can best be described as bullshit machines.
 Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs. We distinguish two ways in which the models can be said to be bullshitters, and argue that they clearly meet at least one of these definitions. We further argue that describing AI misrepresentations as bullshit is both a more useful and more accurate way of predicting and discussing the behaviour of these systems.]]></description>
<dc:subject>AI GenAI chatGPT Metafilter rant discussion</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://twitter.com/eddie1perez/status/1783457159348391994?s=43&amp;t=DcVppoW0WQoW2NMN_iXRZw">
    <title>Edward Perez on X: &quot;1/ Two years ago today, on 4/25/22, Twitter’s Board accepted Elon Musk’s offer to acquire the company at $54.20/share. As an ex-director for civic integrity at Twitter, I’ve watched what Musk has done since then. And today is my </title>
    <dc:date>2024-04-26T14:58:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://twitter.com/eddie1perez/status/1783457159348391994?s=43&amp;t=DcVppoW0WQoW2NMN_iXRZw</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[4/ Musk’s willingness to burn down what he purchased suggests that he’s motivated by a perverse righteousness, not profit.]]></description>
<dc:subject>twitter elonmusk musk rant</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:630f17929230/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://twitter.com/vproceart/status/1781854966027579889">
    <title>Vincent Proce on X: &quot;Calling all artists. This is making the rounds. There is hope for us yet! https://t.co/aURCnLGko1&quot; / X</title>
    <dc:date>2024-04-23T08:48:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://twitter.com/vproceart/status/1781854966027579889</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Calling all artists. This is making the rounds. There is hope for us yet!]]></description>
<dc:subject>twitter thread AI GenAI animation background art dailies review fail rant</dc:subject>
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    <title>Kal Athannassov on X: &quot;Hi, real character designer here. Outside of the blatant theft happening here, what you don’t understand is how designing characters works. You lack the foundational knowledge to know what is appealing and what isn’t.&quot; / X</title>
    <dc:date>2024-04-23T08:45:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://twitter.com/dr_kal_drungus/status/1782215126520824183?s=43&amp;t=DcVppoW0WQoW2NMN_iXRZw</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Hi, real character designer here. 

Outside of the blatant theft happening here, what you don’t understand is how designing characters works.

You lack the foundational knowledge to know what is appealing and what isn’t.]]></description>
<dc:subject>twitter thread AI genAI animation character copyright creativity rant</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:17d5267a6707/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://forum.figma.com/t/where-has-the-inspect-tab-gone/61761/9">
    <title>Where has the Inspect tab gone? - Ask the community - Figma Community Forum</title>
    <dc:date>2024-02-29T14:13:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://forum.figma.com/t/where-has-the-inspect-tab-gone/61761/9</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Without having to sound disrespectful, we all know why Figma has made the business decision to hide what was initially one of it’s best selling points, the inspect tab, behind a paywall.]]></description>
<dc:subject>figma forum rant devmode inspect</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:33f7ac135130/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://dannorth.net/mckinsey-review/">
    <title>McKinsey Developer Productivity Review - Dan North &amp; Associates Ltd</title>
    <dc:date>2023-10-05T08:42:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://dannorth.net/mckinsey-review/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[McKinsey recently published an article claiming they can measure developer productivity. This has provoked something of a backlash from some prominent software people, but I have not seen anyone engage with the content of the article itself, so I thought this would be useful.]]></description>
<dc:subject>programmer productivity AI Copilot fallacy rant</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:834793350f66/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://dkb.blog/p/google-search-is-dying">
    <title>Google Search Is Dying - by Dmitri Brereton - DKB Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2023-03-06T15:42:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://dkb.blog/p/google-search-is-dying</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If you’ve tried to search for a recipe or product review recently, I don’t need to tell you that Google search results have gone to shit. You would have already noticed that the first few non-ad results are SEO optimized sites filled with affiliate links and ads.]]></description>
<dc:subject>google search bad rant reddit</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:e636aa0ad748/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35041435">
    <title>Amazon’s big dreams for Alexa fall short | Hacker News</title>
    <dc:date>2023-03-06T15:27:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35041435</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ "Alexa, I want to throw you in the garbage." is probably the phrase I say the most to that device. I use it as a kitchen assistant, and that is pretty much the only thing I want to use it for. All the extra crap that amazon keeps pushing on to the device just makes it worse. My main uses cases are: grocery lists, listening to music, setting timers, viewing recipes, making meal related announcements to the house. I really don't want to see any advertisements or other content it thinks I might be interested in. Just stop doing it please.]]></description>
<dc:subject>amazon Alexa VUI rant problem Echo voice assistant</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:d1fa14b7989d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35038218">
    <title>Many of Apple’s own apps are egregiously bad at reporting errors — as in, they d... | Hacker News</title>
    <dc:date>2023-03-06T15:18:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35038218</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ AirDrop is a particularly egregious outlier. It’s clear that something has gone very, very wrong with that feature. Not only with how unreliable it is, which is already bad enough, but with how clearly broken that basic state machine driving the UI is. Once it has gotten into a bad state, from my experience there’s no way to get it to succeed without restarting one or both iPhones. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>apple iphone error message rant Airdrop</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:217cabcdaadf/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/t:apple"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2106.1/04596.html">
    <title>Linux-Kernel Archive: Re: Maintainers / Kernel Summit 2021 planning kick-off</title>
    <dc:date>2021-06-11T11:04:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2106.1/04596.html</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Please keep your insane and technically incorrect anti-vax comments to yourself.

You don't know what you are talking about, you don't know what mRNA
is, and you're spreading idiotic lies. Maybe you do so unwittingly,
because of bad education. Maybe you do so because you've talked to
"experts" or watched youtube videos by charlatans that don't know what
they are talking about.]]></description>
<dc:subject>linus torvalds linux covid vaccine rant funny mailing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:42fa176bc204/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://basecamp.com/guides/group-chat-problems">
    <title>Group Chat, Group Stress | Basecamp</title>
    <dc:date>2020-12-16T20:10:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://basecamp.com/guides/group-chat-problems</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The perils of the modern communications conveyor belt that never ends, divides your attention, fractures your time, and chains you to FOMO. Over the past few years, persistent group chat tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams have taken hold — and strangled companies.]]></description>
<dc:subject>slack messaging group chat rant problems basecamp 37signals</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:5706e4f37375/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/t:chat"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/t:rant"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22297461">
    <title>Where are all the animated SVGs? | Hacker News</title>
    <dc:date>2020-02-12T10:28:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22297461</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Please keep the animated SVG's away! 
Motion is extremely effective at drawing the eye's attention, and so should never be used unless that's the goal.]]></description>
<dc:subject>animation motion SVG getmotion app distraction rant hn</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:eca833f8a324/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/t:getmotion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/t:app"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20231216">
    <title>What's wrong with the UX of IRC? * No user accounts, except via a baffling Ni... | Hacker News</title>
    <dc:date>2019-06-20T12:28:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20231216</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><dc:subject>slack irc rant</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:dae7a7525025/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/t:irc"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.docbastard.net/2019/03/busting-vaccine-myths.html">
    <title>Stories from the trauma bay: Busting Vaccine Myths</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-13T11:09:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.docbastard.net/2019/03/busting-vaccine-myths.html</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ My Twitter life has devolved into arguing about pseudoscience, and that has devolved even further into mainly arguing about vaccines. I have officially gotten sick and fucking tired of answering the same stupid points repeatedly, so I have decided to make this handy dandy little (not-so-little) compendium of Answers To Stupid Antivax Talking Points. These are the same tired old arguments I have heard over and over and fucking over again, and that I have refuted over and over and fucking over again. So instead of repeating myself, I can just point people here and thus assure myself that no one will ever read this ever in the future history of ever.]]></description>
<dc:subject>vaccines antivax pseudoscience conspiracy debunk myths rant medical</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:c5b9345e4d63/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/t:conspiracy"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190201">
    <title>Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway - apenwarr</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-11T16:33:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190201</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I don't mind letting your programs see my private data as long as I get something useful in exchange. But that's not what happens.]]></description>
<dc:subject>AI advertising privacy recommendations rant</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:56fb135fa9b5/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/t:recommendations"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1043924673816231936.html">
    <title>Thread by @MrAlanCooper: &quot;As a programmer, an inventor and an author, I have used and benefited from intellectual property protection all of my professional life. Tha […]&quot; #unroll</title>
    <dc:date>2018-09-24T08:57:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1043924673816231936.html</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As a programmer, an inventor and an author, I have used and benefited from intellectual property protection all of my professional life]]></description>
<dc:subject>IP patents intellectual property rant thread</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:0840eaa35f49/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how-to-make-80-000-per-month-on-the-apple-app-store-bdb943862e88">
    <title>How to Make $80,000 Per Month on the Apple App Store</title>
    <dc:date>2017-06-16T20:50:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how-to-make-80-000-per-month-on-the-apple-app-store-bdb943862e88</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It suddenly made a lot of sense how this app generates $80,000 a month. At $400/month per subscriber, it only needs to scam 200 people to make $80,000/month, or $960,000 a year. Of that amount, Apple takes 30%, or $288,000 — from just this one app.]]></description>
<dc:subject>apple appstore scam security rant app</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:3300c41c5f1c/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mobile.twitter.com/WSAGcort/status/874591755043295233">
    <title>cort on Twitter: &quot;Utterly fed up with older people asking why they need to subsidise students’ education. Short thread follows. Pls RT if you agree 1/12&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2017-06-16T20:45:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mobile.twitter.com/WSAGcort/status/874591755043295233</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Utterly fed up with older people asking why they need to subsidise students’ education. Short thread follows. Pls RT if you agree 1/12]]></description>
<dc:subject>student fees education rant older</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:18b55fee93dd/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/t:student"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://randsinrepose.com/archives/how-to-build-a-button/">
    <title>How to Build a Button – Rands in Repose</title>
    <dc:date>2017-03-28T12:57:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://randsinrepose.com/archives/how-to-build-a-button/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It is a point of pride for me how I type. I am proud of the fact that I can sit in this here chair, stare at the screen, and let the words flow effortlessly. I very rarely look at the keyboard, and when I do, I have a word that describes this state. It is an interruption.]]></description>
<dc:subject>apple button touchbar UX UI randsinrepose rant touch bar</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:09b1f5735c2a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/5n3lai/open_letter_of_apology/">
    <title>Open Letter of Apology : loseit</title>
    <dc:date>2017-03-09T16:23:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/5n3lai/open_letter_of_apology/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am the one who was giving you dirty looks in the grocery store.
I am the one who rolled their eyes at you in the restaurant.
I am the one who shared that insensitive meme.]]></description>
<dc:subject>fat weight shame reddit apology rant health</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:5f4b100ecd4c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.novolume.co.uk/blog/all-websites-look-the-same/">
    <title>All Websites Look The Same - NoVolume, Web Design Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2017-02-25T17:07:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.novolume.co.uk/blog/all-websites-look-the-same/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When was the last time you saw a website that didn’t have a huge image fitting to the screen with some giant text overlaid on it?]]></description>
<dc:subject>website design same trends rant unoriginality</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:79e45fceafac/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/11/removing-your-site-from-amp/#comment-6696">
    <title>Google’s AMP is a gilded cage – Terence Eden's Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2017-02-22T14:25:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/11/removing-your-site-from-amp/#comment-6696</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I'm against AMP by principle. AMP pages are hosted on Google CDN servers. If AMP use gets widespread, a chunk of the internet will then be exclusively hosted by Google. Google can then rein the internet at will. Their news aggregator already only serve AMP pages. Their search engine heavily promotes them as well. Responsive design is better since it leaves webmasters in control and you maintain a free open market for information. If we transition to an AMP world the last remnants of freedom and access to the crowds will be determined by Google. IMO the best thing we could use right now is a new distributed, decentralized open source search platform instead of Google.]]></description>
<dc:subject>amp google rant comment</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:187c0a975bd3/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/11/removing-your-site-from-amp/">
    <title>Google’s AMP is a gilded cage – Terence Eden's Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2017-02-22T14:24:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/11/removing-your-site-from-amp/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[AMP is Google's attempt to re-fight the transcoding wars of the early 2000s. It is actively dangerous to the web ecosystem, helps disseminate propaganda, and is disliked by many users. If, like me, you made the mistake of trying out AMP on your website - you're in a tricky position if you try to remove it. Google doesn't like anything leaving its clutches.]]></description>
<dc:subject>amp google rant terence eden</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:2d9a1ff2323b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/@platonik/f-k-e-commerce-why-i-wont-design-or-develop-another-e-commerce-store-3926afdc4458#.bppub9uf2">
    <title>F**k E-commerce. Why I won’t design or develop another e-commerce store – Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2017-02-20T12:09:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/@platonik/f-k-e-commerce-why-i-wont-design-or-develop-another-e-commerce-store-3926afdc4458#.bppub9uf2</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I picked the wrong e-commerce platform 10 years ago — today Shopify and Magento rule.]]></description>
<dc:subject>ecom e-com shop shopify magento rant marketing retail</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:222217cdea1a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://theawl.com/a-complete-taxonomy-of-internet-chum-de0b7a070a2d">
    <title>A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chum</title>
    <dc:date>2016-11-01T23:21:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://theawl.com/a-complete-taxonomy-of-internet-chum-de0b7a070a2d</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Internet chum: a despair-inducing view into the subconscious and cesspit of online advertising ]]></description>
<dc:subject>chum online internet advertising rant</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:0eeb26146c5b/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://salon.thefamily.co/enough-with-this-basic-income-bullshit-a6bc92e8286b#.t218p7mty">
    <title>Enough With This Basic Income Bullshit</title>
    <dc:date>2016-10-20T13:37:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://salon.thefamily.co/enough-with-this-basic-income-bullshit-a6bc92e8286b#.t218p7mty</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Indeed we have to fight rising inequalities, tackle economic insecurity, and imagine new social institutions for the next generations. Unfortunately the current cult of universal basic income as the solution to every social issue doesn’t help in that regard. Instead of opening up the discussion, shining a light on the concerned parties, and tracing a path toward new institutions, it focuses some of the most brilliant minds on a theoretical solution that is intellectually simplistic, socially perverse, and politically impracticable.]]></description>
<dc:subject>ubi universal basic income rant counterargument</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:c7ff34b437d6/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://mattgemmell.com/a-declining-trajectory/">
    <title>A Declining Trajectory - Matt Gemmell</title>
    <dc:date>2016-10-10T11:31:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mattgemmell.com/a-declining-trajectory/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The practical impact of all this for me is small, but meaningful: I don’t trust this stuff anymore. It was the very reliability of it — in user-friendly design, as well as stability of functionality — that was the basis of my choice in the first place, and continued choices for decades since. I don’t care about the brand itself, and I have no intellectual investment in the platforms as a developer anymore. I just need things that work, and that I can rely on working.]]></description>
<dc:subject>mac apple ios quality rant</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:47e7e24b1477/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://blog.prototypr.io/the-ideal-design-workflow-2c200b8e337d#.2f1e40ne0">
    <title>The Ideal Design Workflow</title>
    <dc:date>2016-09-13T08:25:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://blog.prototypr.io/the-ideal-design-workflow-2c200b8e337d#.2f1e40ne0</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As designers, we are constantly experimenting with tools and processes in an attempt to find the one that works best. After a great deal of experimentation, I’ve discovered the perfect design workflow, and I’m going to share it with you now. Design is a process and the process I’m going to share is the one I’ve used on all my projects to build habit-forming products that people love.]]></description>
<dc:subject>interactive prototyping spoof satire rant funny prototypr marvel omnigraffle invision software</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:d537890cdd23/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12052394">
    <title>So, let's see: Microsoft is thinking that a lot of the future of their busine... | Hacker News</title>
    <dc:date>2016-07-08T10:13:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12052394</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Satya, what you call artificial intelligence I call at best trivial and otherwise nearly useless, silly, annoying, insulting, absurd, a pain in the back side, and just genuinely stupid.]]></description>
<dc:subject>AI microsoft rant UI UX</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:008f7c898e9b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/425gay/what_video_game_concepttrope_should_just_fuck_off/">
    <title>What video game concept/trope should just fuck off already? : AskReddit</title>
    <dc:date>2016-05-19T13:19:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/425gay/what_video_game_concepttrope_should_just_fuck_off/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Enemies leveling up exactly the same as the weapons. The normal spammy bad guy takes 3 hits the whole game. What's the thrill in finding the incendiary katana of doom when it kills the same stupid henchman as my wooden plank did when the game began. Keep weak enemies weak, introduce new tougher enemies through to keep it interesting.]]></description>
<dc:subject>games gaming videogames tropes rant problems askreddit</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:c6713a3c46f0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/art-marketing/on-wine-a-tragedy-c6296b7968b1#.j72afoy2g">
    <title>On Wine. A tragedy. — ART + marketing — Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2016-04-25T14:12:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/art-marketing/on-wine-a-tragedy-c6296b7968b1#.j72afoy2g</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Here’s the truth about wine. You may be just like me and cars. Someone who wants to drink something fruity and fresh on a terrace in summer or rich and red with your steak at night. Who should care what you’re drinking? Only you should! Quaff away, slurp if you want. Hell use a straw and mix it with 7up for all I care. Are you smiling when you do it? Are your friends laughing with you? Great. You did it right.]]></description>
<dc:subject>wine connoisseurs tasting price pricing rant</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:41efdc49d1f8/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://m.signalvnoise.com/is-group-chat-making-you-sweat-744659addf7d#.trad0339o">
    <title>Is group chat making you sweat? — Signal v. Noise</title>
    <dc:date>2016-04-15T14:05:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://m.signalvnoise.com/is-group-chat-making-you-sweat-744659addf7d#.trad0339o</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Group chat is like being in an all-day meeting with random participants and no agenda.]]></description>
<dc:subject>slack IRC chat rant Jason Fried group productivity</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:3aa096ccf02c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.planningforaliens.com/blog/2016/04/11/why-js-development-is-crazy/">
    <title>Why Javascript Development is Crazy</title>
    <dc:date>2016-04-14T08:26:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.planningforaliens.com/blog/2016/04/11/why-js-development-is-crazy/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ Grunt/Gulp npm, require.js, browserify, es6, compilers, transpilers, jasmine mocha chai, react/angular/ember, closures, prototypes. *head explodes* ]]></description>
<dc:subject>javascript development programming rant</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:2f990d9fb2a7/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://eev.ee/blog/2016/03/06/maybe-we-could-tone-down-the-javascript/">
    <title>Maybe we could tone down the JavaScript / fuzzy notepad</title>
    <dc:date>2016-03-08T13:32:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://eev.ee/blog/2016/03/06/maybe-we-could-tone-down-the-javascript/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[RT @heydonworks: This is the most complete critique of ill-advised javascript dependency I've read and it's EPIC.  (via @kevinmarks)]]></description>
<dc:subject>accessibility javascript rant overload progressive enhancement eevee</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:6743a45c8603/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://t37.net/why-link-shorteners-harm-your-readers-and-destroy-the-web.html">
    <title>Why link shorteners hurt the user experience and destroy the Web</title>
    <dc:date>2015-12-02T16:13:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://t37.net/why-link-shorteners-harm-your-readers-and-destroy-the-web.html</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I clicked on a bit.ly link someone had pushed to Twitter using Buffer to broadcast a link from Pocket. The Pocket to Buffer to Twitter workflow is a pretty common one, but this time, the madness went too far.]]></description>
<dc:subject>url shorteners latency rant bitly tco pocket</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:a5847f3fe6fa/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.aaron-gray.com/a-criticism-of-scrum/#daily-commitments-promote-feeling-sorry-for-your-work">
    <title>A Criticism of Scrum • Aaron Gray</title>
    <dc:date>2015-11-02T09:38:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.aaron-gray.com/a-criticism-of-scrum/#daily-commitments-promote-feeling-sorry-for-your-work</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Scrum has issues due to the maker's schedule, flow, observer effect, bikeshedding, and heavy overhead. It strains ties between management and developers.]]></description>
<dc:subject>scrum agile criticism critique rant management software development</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:5dfc0174efb3/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/09/exercise-vague-caution/">
    <title>jwz: EXERCISE VAGUE CAUTION</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-13T21:56:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/09/exercise-vague-caution/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, some shitheel glued up signs in my building's lobby reading "THIS BUILDING IS MONITORED BY CLOSED-CIRCUIT CAMERAS". Presumably this was a shitheel from the building management company that my homeowner's association hired, but who can tell. These signs irk me. They irk me good.]]></description>
<dc:subject>jwz cctv cameras privacy rant</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:a024470ab6e4/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1950">
    <title>LukeW | Dropdowns Should be the UI of Last Resort</title>
    <dc:date>2015-07-18T23:27:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1950</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[On mobile] RT @lukew: Dropdown menus should be the UI of last resort: ]]></description>
<dc:subject>dropdown ux lukew rant</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://changelog.complete.org/archives/9345-i-give-up-on-google-free-is-too-expensive">
    <title>I Give Up on Google: Free is Too Expensive | The Changelog</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-21T13:56:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://changelog.complete.org/archives/9345-i-give-up-on-google-free-is-too-expensive</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am really tired of things Google has done lately. The most recent example being retiring Classic Maps.]]></description>
<dc:subject>google crap maps classic places rant</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:97a138b6c402/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://johnpolacek.com/2013/08/26/the-bootstrap-trap/">
    <title>The Bootstrap Trap - John Polacek - Chicago Web Developer</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-13T10:08:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://johnpolacek.com/2013/08/26/the-bootstrap-trap/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Am I suggesting you or your team should consider rolling your own framework for every project? Yes, I’m absolutely suggesting that. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>bootstrap rant trap problems</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/@krave/apple-s-app-store-review-process-is-hurting-users-but-we-re-not-allowed-to-talk-about-it-55d791451b">
    <title>Apple’s App Store review process is hurting users, but we’re not allowed to talk about it. — Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-13T09:41:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/@krave/apple-s-app-store-review-process-is-hurting-users-but-we-re-not-allowed-to-talk-about-it-55d791451b</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There should be outrage.]]></description>
<dc:subject>apple apps app store rant</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/bad/quora-scribd-considered-harmful.html">
    <title>Nelson's Weblog: tech / bad / quora-scribd-considered-harmful</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-04T08:24:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/bad/quora-scribd-considered-harmful.html</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There are two terrible web properties out there that everyone hates, Scribd and Quora. Please don’t use them. Instead of Scribd just host a PDF anywhere, or upload text to pastebin or make a nice blog on WordPress or Medium or something. And instead of Quora use Ask MetaFilter or StackExchange.]]></description>
<dc:subject>scribd quora rant</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.subtraction.com/2014/03/20/the-scourge-of-coffee/">
    <title>The Scourge of Coffee + Subtraction.com</title>
    <dc:date>2014-05-07T10:23:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.subtraction.com/2014/03/20/the-scourge-of-coffee/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In the West, and particularly in urban centers of the United States, we’ve turned coffee into not just a daily habit, but a totem of conspicuous consumption. They are “rituals of self-congratulation”]]></description>
<dc:subject>coffee backlash rant</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:1a001735e713/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/10/why-microsoft-word-must-die.html">
    <title>Why Microsoft Word must Die - Charlie's Diary</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-15T09:58:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/10/why-microsoft-word-must-die.html</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[And even the gurus with job security hate it. I've been using Word regularly for twenty years now, and I tend to wind up becoming in charge of managing documentation in any office where I work by virtue of being the only one that can get documents to look consistent in Word.]]></description>
<dc:subject>microsoft word rant</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bitvtest.eu/articles/article/lesen/aria-confusion.html">
    <title>BIK BITV-Test | Articles | Using WAI-ARIA - The difficulty of finding out how to use WAI-ARIA correctly</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-18T13:05:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bitvtest.eu/articles/article/lesen/aria-confusion.html</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Even with the best of intentions and diligent searching it is still rather difficult to work out how to correctly use WAI-ARIA – even for rather simple use cases.]]></description>
<dc:subject>aria wai-aria accessibility a11y best practice wcagtest rant</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130408/01345422620/authors-guilds-scott-turow-supreme-court-google-ebooks-libraries-amazon-are-all-destroying-authors.shtml">
    <title>Authors Guild's Scott Turow: The Supreme Court, Google, Ebooks, Libraries &amp; Amazon Are All Destroying Authors | Techdirt</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-10T16:01:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130408/01345422620/authors-guilds-scott-turow-supreme-court-google-ebooks-libraries-amazon-are-all-destroying-authors.shtml</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We've written more than a few times about Scott Turow, a brilliant author, but an absolute disaster as the Luddite-driven head of the Authors' Guild. During his tenure, he's done a disservice to authors around the globe by basically attacking everything new and modern -- despite any opportunities it might provide -- and talked up the importance of going back to physical books and bookstores. He's an often uninformed champion of a past that never really existed and which has no place in modern society. He once claimed that Shakespeare wouldn't have been successful under today's copyright law because of piracy, ignoring the fact that copyright law didn't even exist in the age of Shakespeare. His anti-ebook rants are just kind of wacky. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>amazon books copyright journalism ebooks scott turow authors guild rant techdirt</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:4e9e026e0270/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://daltoncaldwell.com/the-xbox-developer-ecosystem">
    <title>The Xbox developer ecosystem | Dalton Caldwell</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-04T13:23:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://daltoncaldwell.com/the-xbox-developer-ecosystem</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My gripe is that, as usual, Microsoft has jumped its own shark and is out stomping through the weeds planning and talking about far-flung future strategies in interactive television and original programming partnerships with big dying media companies when their core product, their home town is on fire, their soldiers, their developers, are tired and deserting, and their supply-lines are broken. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>xbox rant ecosystem</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://myddelton.co.uk/post/43151924506/nothings-your-fault">
    <title>Nothing's Your Fault* - Hidden Gems</title>
    <dc:date>2013-02-27T11:30:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://myddelton.co.uk/post/43151924506/nothings-your-fault</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I’ve been working as a user experience consultant for large clients for about eighteen months. One thing bugs me more than anything else: So much of the time, nothing gets done.]]></description>
<dc:subject>ux consulting consultancy rant nothing happens failure clients responsibility will myddelton</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://blog.mattlanger.com/post/43904018913">
    <title>Matt Langer - ‘Forrest Gump’ is the Worst Movie in the History of the Universe and Here Are Just a Few of the Many Reasons Why</title>
    <dc:date>2013-02-26T09:23:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blog.mattlanger.com/post/43904018913</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><dc:subject>forrest gump rant movie</dc:subject>
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