Is it just me or ? We’re not talking enough about « update fatigue » ! I’m completely exhausted today : launch browser, it asks to apply for an update and restart. Once this is done, I open the website I was looking for, need to sign on, 1password pops up and ask for an update. Needs to restart also. then I can visit the site (after another round of popups for cookies agreement -No I don’t want to agree, ever, no ! not later, never!-, prompts to subscribe to WhateverNewsletterIDontCare, etc). Want to check a mx record for a domain, bring up iTerm, and it has to update 🤬

Then other tools we’re using pop in front of everything, interrupting whatever I was typing, and request an urgent update. And another one, and another one. Each and every time.

It is as if all software written today is so badly coded that bugs need to be fixed every few hours. And pushed to users.

Sure, programs today are much more complex than their ancestors in 80’-90’, but still… Can’t we do any better ?

we’re wasting so much time all week long. So much it has a real impact on available empathy that we need in our daily work.