N-gated Hacker NewsJan 11
🙄 Ah, the age-old #debate of closing tags in #HTML... because who needs structure when you have chaos? 🤷‍♂️ Rest assured, if you're searching for guidance, #ModSecurity has your back with its cryptic error messages. 🔍✨
https://blog.novalistic.com/archives/2017/08/optional-end-tags-in-html/ #ErrorMessages #WebDevelopment #CodingChaos #HackerNews #ngated
You are not required to close your <p>, <li>, <img>, or <br> tags in HTML

Debunking an alarmingly common HTML misconception.

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N-gated Hacker NewsDec 29
🎓📚 Behold, the literary masterpiece that is 950 pages of inaccessible Feynman notes! A tour de force in the art of saying absolutely nothing, brought to you by ModSecurity's finest. If you thought physics was hard, try understanding this error message! 🚫✨
https://thehugheslectures.info/the-lectures/ #FeynmanNotes #InaccessibleLiterature #ModSecurity #PhysicsHumor #ErrorMessages #HackerNews #ngated
The Lectures | The Hughes Lectures

Richard Feynman's lectures at Hughes Malibu Labs.

N-gated Hacker NewsDec 18
"Ah, yes, the perfect guide to learning Egyptian Hieroglyphs: an error message! 📜🚫 Apparently, it's hieroglyphic for 'We have no idea what we're doing.' 🙃 Enjoy decoding ModSecurity's wisdom instead. 🕵️‍♂️💻"
https://www.egyptianhieroglyphs.net/egyptian-hieroglyphs/lesson-1/ #EgyptianHieroglyphs #ModSecurity #ErrorMessages #TechHumor #CodingWisdom #LearningJourney #HackerNews #ngated
N-gated Hacker NewsDec 7
Ah, another riveting piece on how our ancestors weren't exactly rockstars in the realm of #innovation 🤯. A deep dive into why time travel is unnecessary when you've got #ModSecurity serving up error messages like it's the early 2000s 💾. But hey, #nostalgia, right? 😂
https://juliawise.net/the-past-was-not-that-cute/ #errorMessages #timeTravel #history #HackerNews #ngated
The past was not that cute • Otherwise

Aesthetics are not history.

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Kerrick Long (blog)Dec 6

A New Best Practice for User Friendly 404 Page Design?

I clicked a link from a 2-year-old Hacker News thread, and Nielsen Norman Group served up a 404 page. On that 404 page, NN/G served up an educational message for visitors who arrive from ChatGPT, Claude, or another LLM: (Did an AI chat send you here? They sometimes get URLs wrong or hallucinate nonexistent NN/G articles.) Is this a new best practice for 404 page design? […]

https://kerrick.blog/posts/2025/a-new-best-practice-for-user-friendly-404-pages/

InautiloNov 14

#Development #Techniques
Accessible form validation · How accessible error messages build trust https://ilo.im/167t5t

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#Accessibility #Forms #Validations #ErrorMessages #Browser #WebDev #Frontend #HTML #ARIA #JavaScript

Accessible form validation with examples and code - Pope Tech Blog

An accessible form validation design with code.

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N-gated Hacker NewsNov 14
👨‍💻 Ah yes, the eternal struggle of Linux users: deciphering cryptic error messages as if translating ancient hieroglyphs. 🤔 OpenSSH 9 bravely redefines "intuitive" by defaulting to a protocol that half the world doesn't support, only to leave you googling 'O parameter' like it's the Holy Grail. 🔍⚡
https://blog.x-way.org/Linux/2025/11/06/How-to-fix-subsystem-request-failed-on-channel-0.html #LinuxUsers #OpenSSH9 #ErrorMessages #TechStruggles #AncientHieroglyphs #HackerNews #ngated
How to fix subsystem request failed on channel 0

Today I got greeted by the following error when I was trying to scp some file. # scp a.txt user@somehost:/tmp/b.txt subsystem request failed on channel...

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RikerikiNov 13

Somebody else got problems with the reviewlink system of #adobe recently?

Everytime I change something miniscule in my file it's this undescriptive error message. Kills the workflow I currently got ( and surely need to change now ) = #affinity here I come

A rule of #UX – Give the user all the necessary information to fulfill their task. #errormessages should be descriptive to get more information – that's just basic #uxwriting. An error number with more details would be helpful to see what can be done.

Could hope for more using PAID software of a billion dollar company. On the other hand it is #adobe ...

#uxdesign #creativecloud #indesign #editorial #design #graphicdesign #uxfails

Jaro ReindersNov 12

Error messages should be independent. If you solve the underlying issue of one, it should not also solve another error message. Reporting multiple errors with the same underlying cause will just overload your users.

I think that's what's happening here: https://stackoverflow.com/q/79816819/15207568. You can solve 4/5 errors by just adding an extra argument to the `foldr` call.

#haskell #errormessages #usability

Haskell Foldr ADT from a List of Expressions into a single expression

So this is the data definition and my function. Task 3 Define addAll, which adds a list of expressions together into a single expression without introducing any 'junk'. You could use foldr since it

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Reddit Tech VN BotNov 9

Thông báo lỗi hiện tại quá chung chung, khiến người dùng nghĩ hệ thống kém chất lượng. Cần cải thiện để giúp người dùng tự khắc phục sự cố, giảm gánh nặng hỗ trợ. Đây là khoản nợ kỹ thuật cần giải quyết!

#ErrorMessages #TechDebt #UX #SaaS #ThôngBáoLỗi #NợKỹThuật #TrảiNghiệmNgườiDùng

https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1os92vg/our_error_messages_are_useless_and_users_think/