Owen Jacobson @owen@mastodon.transneptune.net

Real-time chat was a mistake

Great to see how GDPR cookie warnings and their predecessors have trained companies to blatantly lie to users in consent dialogs.

Of all the dystopian futures we predicted, "you must train at least this many killbots to log on" was not one of them.

The AWS user experience is so bad that I'm seriously considering putting a VM host under my desk instead. The cloud at my feet.

When was the first time that there was nothing new under the sun?

In the same vein as Gary Bernhardt's remarks about computer audio, did you know that browser address bars _don't work_? None of them work. Every single one eats input some of the time.

Having one of those mornings where the question "what is the most important thing I could be doing, in the context I have, right now" is met with "here's a howling whirlwind."

the tragedy of the commons, but for human attention

@owen most businesses and many other orgs will find ways to direct line employees away from meaningful decisions _anyways_ and blaming a specific planning process for it would be missing the forest for the trees

what differentiates most programming jobs from, say, factory work is the number of lost limbs, and the degree to which each is willing to admit they have no control over their work

hot take: modern agile methods are the latest in a line of managerial and process engineering tactics to try to preserve developers’ pride in being important to their job, while directing their decisionmaking energies away from any actual mission or business decisions

"Did you burp?"
"Yup."
"I really wish you hadn't."
"Yeah, well, we don't always get what we want."

I got Feb 14 _and_ Mar 14 all at once today and wow am I exhausted.

If businesses put as much effort into finding other models of sustainability as they put into chastising users for adblocks, there might actually be some sustainable web businesses out there.

If yr into machine learning and AI but yr not following Janelle Shane's work, I dunno what to tell you.

Given what I know about group consensus and decisions, I feel like I might be able to help found just such a cooperative - but I don't know who else is interested.

I want a deployment platform for apps that operates as a user-owned cooperative rather than as a privately-owned, for-profit enterprise, but I'm not aware of anything in the space operating that way. Open-source platform systems like Flynn are the closest, but to me part of the value prop is in centralizing expertise while distributing risk, and open source doesn't scratch that itch.