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1. Maybe it's Eyesaline (ieure@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-May-2022 19:33:53 UTC Maybe it's Eyesaline

   I read a gripe about poor software quality a while back (which I wish I could find again) where someone logged every new bug they encountered in a week. Reading it, I both thought "wow, that's a lot" and also "wow, that's very relatable."

   But I keep thinking about it every time I run into some buggy software or broken experience. So I think I'm going to keep a running log of some of this stuff, until I get tired of it.

   #buglog

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   • Maybe it's Eyesaline (ieure@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-May-2022 05:43:10 UTC Maybe it's Eyesaline

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     • Your friendly 'net denizen

     @cstanhope Definitely not the talk. Found two stale blogs from him, but neither was the one and the more recent of the two still hadn't been updated since 2016.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 14-May-2022 05:43:10 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Your friendly 'net denizen
     @ieure @cstanhope Oh! I came here to suggest it might have been Jonathan Blow's talk. If definitely not then I'm even more curious who else practiced this.
   • Your friendly 'net denizen (cstanhope@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 14-May-2022 05:43:11 UTC Your friendly 'net denizen

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     @ieure Possibly this part of the talk from Jonathan Blow? I don't know if he has an associated blog post with it.

     https://youtu.be/ZSRHeXYDLko?t=1372

   • Maybe it's Eyesaline (ieure@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-May-2022 05:43:12 UTC Maybe it's Eyesaline

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     • Simon :emacs:

     @ssafar Yeah, annoying! I found this in my history, it's not the thing but somewhat adjacent: https://drewdevault.com/2021/10/17/Reliability.html

     I recall that it was on some kind of personal blog/wiki hybrid, maybe another post on this thing?

     I'll have to keep digging.

   • Simon :emacs: (ssafar@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 14-May-2022 05:43:17 UTC Simon :emacs:

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     @ieure so I'm not the only person who read it but then can't find it again!

   • Maybe it's Eyesaline (ieure@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-May-2022 00:05:57 UTC Maybe it's Eyesaline

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     PagerDuty on Android uses the same notification to let you know that the schedule was updated as it uses to let you know that production is on fire.

     #buglog

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   • tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Thursday, 26-May-2022 00:55:55 UTC tech? no! man, see...

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     @ieure I switched to using Zoom exclusively in the browser (other than mobile) and I gotta say, I have no regrets.

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   • Maybe it's Eyesaline (ieure@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-May-2022 00:55:56 UTC Maybe it's Eyesaline

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     This one is pretty esoteric, but I use the window class name to do some custom window title handling based on which client it is. And since Zoom's class name is now ludicrous, that breaks.

   • Maybe it's Eyesaline (ieure@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-May-2022 00:55:57 UTC Maybe it's Eyesaline

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     I upgraded Zoom, and the new version has broken X Window class names. The class identifies the X client, and is related (but different) to the title.

     The class was always kind of weird, it consistently started with "zoom," but had text appended. But now it's always "join?pwd=&action=join&confno=" — but with reall meeting IDs and passwords(!!) in it.

     #buglog

   • Maybe it's Eyesaline (ieure@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-May-2022 00:56:08 UTC Maybe it's Eyesaline

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     • Annika Backstrom

     @annika I have, they're cute, but I'd never actually use them, because I hate fun.

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   • Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Thursday, 26-May-2022 00:56:09 UTC Annika Backstrom

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     @ieure I set the pager alert to Sad Trombone

     Have you listened to the cursed Barbershop Quartet alerts?