Having lots of cryptic steps that seem intuitive to someone hacking at the command line 12 hours a day is not the same thing as making something easy to install and use.
On rich text editors and blogging software
Will someone please explain to anyone either creating a WYSIWYG editor in JavaScript, or creating blogging software to make it “easy” to write blog posts–that you need to have the option for monospaced blocks of text?
It’s not that hard. Really, it’s not.
People are not machines
In an effort to pad the blog, as it were, I figured I’d bring up the first of two topics of discussion today: error and debug messages. Now, those of you who have programmed for a living know that you often end up with something that looks like this:
[Fri Sep 22 19:29:20 2006] [warn] […]
On the cost of recovery
So much for the preservation of old blog posts.