Mastodawn

Every few years, I have to sign into AWS to do some minor thing, and there are 40 new levels of complexity to basic tasks, scary new terms and settings on everything that I don't want to touch, it turns out the one thing I needed doesn't exist anymore, and now I need to first create a user management system to set up assignment roles to tag my management assets so I can define an access policy for the one goddamn setting I was looking for

armchairdj Jun 10, 2025

Any website that pops open new tabs for you WITHIN THEIR OWN GODDAMNED SITE needs to be seized & nationalized and given an HTML 1.0 redesign by the people’s representative usability experts. No CSS or JS allowed. If your navigation is so bad that you don’t trust my ability to get back to your homepage, you are disqualified. Looking at you, Bandcamp and Etsy.

armchairdj Jun 10, 2025

Etsy ship confirm emails are just as bad. Why do they and every other fucking online retailer think u wanna track yr package on their hellish website? JUST GIVE ME A FUCKING LINK TO THE MOTHERFUCKING USPS OR UPS OR FEDEX YOU IDIOTS!!!! Ebay does the same fucking thing.

armchairdj Jun 10, 2025

The Etsy use interface on web is unbelievably hostile. 90 different kinds of Toast-style notifications in 100 different sizes and locations all compete for attention.

armchairdj May 7, 2025

The word “agentic” makes me wanna fucking kill myself.

armchairdj Nov 28, 2024

Binsk

💣Nov 13, 2024

I feel like the final book in @GreatDismal's Jackpot trilogy is probably delayed again for 1-2 years. We're in another stub now. Again.

armchairdj Sep 11, 2024

Watching apps who abuse notifications, and therefore force me to disable their notifications, constantly beg me to turn on notifications, is a little maddening. Fuck you Lyft, Doordash and especially TikTok. Your in-app nags to turn on notifications prove that you cannot be trusted w/ the ability to interrupt my life at your whim. iOS needs like spam filters for permission prompts.

Related: Fuck off to apps that have no reason to require an internet connection, like fucking Audible, yet throw up a giant UI to tell you that they don’t like you to use their app in airplane mode. I AM ON A FUCKING AIRPLANE, MORONS. YOU DO NOT NEED TO PHONE HOME.

armchairdj Sep 11, 2024

I think Apple thinks its white earbuds and later Airpods are iconic. I think they’ve been fucking hideous for decades. Who the fuck wants their gross earwax to stand out in sharp relief on a field of unrelenting white plastic? Ugh.

armchairdj Sep 11, 2024

Kyle 🏳️‍🌈Sep 11, 2024

“I have concepts of a plan” me when someone asks me for a status update on my JIRA tickets

armchairdj Sep 4, 2024

Marco Arment Sep 3, 2024

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- Yes Plz for a consistent, reliably good roast in a narrower range of flavors
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