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1. joey castillo (joeycastillo@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 02:00:00 JST joey castillo

   I have decided, after ~infinity minor annoyances, that I cannot fucking stand technology anymore, and I say this as a professional technologist whose job is to make with the tech all day every day at a place with “tech” in its name.
   Today: there used to be a simple menu option to take an ALL CAPS thing and make it Title Case; now in some MacOS apps it's vanished, in favor of AI things that I will never use. WHY THE FUCK IS THIS THE FUTURE WE INHABIT? Did literally ANYBODY fucking ask for this?!

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 01:59:59 JST minute

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     @joeycastillo somehow there is a huge lack of taste and making the right calls and a lot of just swimming with the mainstream fads without reflection and it is pretty awful yeah.

   • joey castillo (joeycastillo@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 02:15:27 JST joey castillo

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     • minute

     @mntmn I think it's also a fetishization of the “new” and a chronic undervaluing of design that works. Even putting AI aside: if you redesigned a writer's typewriter every two or three years, they'd never get anything written. If you redesigned carpenters' table saws on the same schedule you'd see a surge in missing limbs. I'm suddenly reminded of the design squiggle diagram. Living with technology today feels like we're stuck on the left side: endless exploration, clarity always out of reach.