Security issues aside, HAVING the idea is the hardest part, much harder than coding an app. If you have a genuinely good idea, it’s pretty easy to find someone to help build it, because that person also wants in on a cash-cow. Lack of ideas is the bigger problem with launching apps today, which a million vibe coders have realized.

But I want it to leave an indent where my finger presses, in the direction I drag it. And you have to gently rub it to get the indent to go away.

This is the actual explanation, and I do tell people when they get frustrated enough. I have the aura, I am a natural tech witch. Just call me and I’ll stand by your PC, scrolling on my phone, while you discover it now works. Bye bye now. Don’t forget to tip your IT guy.

Corporate America in a nutshell

For some reason that just made the ol’ Maytag Man seem a little lonelier. There was no Maytag Dog 😢

Apparently bobby is all grown up, this is his son.

Every company has a test environment. Some companies have production environments.

Careful with them hottub jets, all I’m sayin

it’s the 'tism.

$o $trange

Presumably whoever was in charge of .NET? Weird writing around that.

Nest bricked my security system (after magically installing Assistant on it [oh by the way it has an undocumented microphone]), at least they gave you $100… in gift cards to the fucking google store. Logitech isn’t even that smart.

Blaming consumers for the behavior of corporations is a fallacy of capitalism… consumers act in their best interests, not necessary in everyone’s best interests, so we all suffer if everyone does that.

The fucking parenthetical x86 absolutely kills me. I don’t normally wish dick cancer on people,

The fear is real but in 30 years of unix and linux work, i’ve never actually deleted anything I didn’t mean to.