tag:dreamwidth.org,2018-01-05:3329801göktuğ's blogcadadrcadadr2026-05-28T11:46:47Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2018-01-05:3329801:17565Computers are all haunted2026-05-28T11:46:47Z2026-05-28T11:46:47Zgrumpypublic0Imagine every day you went into your office something was moved about. Someone replaced your pencils with sharpies. Chair has no back now. Desk is another colour. The window opens up instead of sideways. Door handle on the other side from the keyhole.<div> </div><div>It's how it feels like to use computers these days.</div><div> </div><div>Every other day I need to do a setting or two in another piece of software. Another app has shed a feature I used to use every day or replaced it with something that works completely differently.</div><div> </div><div>Sometimes it's an actual improvement. But at that moment I was meant to do something else, not learn what's essentially a new piece of software.</div><div> </div><div>Software people don't respect us. I don't say that as something I've just figured out, I've been a programmer, it's just how this "industry" is. They hate you.</div><div> </div><div>You're just a "user" to them, not a whole human being who has a life going on. Go thru the <em>onboarding</em> 10th time this year. What else do you have to do? What does it matter? Look, I made a new thing! You idiot, do you think your work is more important than this button whose place I tweaked lightly?!</div><br />(Based on a <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/igoktugk.bsky.social/post/3mmvtvnvq2s2w">thread I posted on Bluesky</a> which then <a href="https://sunny.garden/@librarysquirrel/116651861894404763">I reposted on Mastodon</a>.)<br type="_moz" /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=cadadr&ditemid=17565" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments