aka @JWBananas
aka @JWBananas

I will go slightly out of my way to step on that crunchy looking leaf.

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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • (you can disable it but you don’t get the space back)

    This can certainly be annoying. But if you think about it from a UX perspective, what would happen if you could?

    What happens if you disable it, use the space, and then enable it again?

    Where does everything go that you placed there?

    Does it just shift down? What if it can’t because of other content on the page? Do you just shift it to a new page? What if there is content in the way across multiple pages? Does that all get shifted to a jumbled mess on a new page?

    What if you just didn’t let the user enable it again unless the space was cleared? Would that be too confusing for less capable users?

    Sometimes UX designers do seemingly dumb things for very smart reasons.






  • I switched once in college just because I could. But then I switched back when Windows 7 was released.

    Then I switched again at work because our product ran on Ubuntu server, and I hate PuTTY with a passion, and it was just easier to manage Linux from Linux. But I switched back again when we were acquired by a larger company that required us to use more productivity tools that didn’t run well on Linux at the time and had to to “just work” (Skype for Business, Zoom, etc).

    These days I spend most of the workday in WSL via Windows Terminal. At home I run a handful of Linux VMs atop an ESXi hypervisor installed on an old desktop. But when I’m not working, I generally just stay as far away from computers as possible.


  • I switched once in college just because I could. But then I switched back when Windows 7 was released.

    Then I switched again at work because our product ran on Ubuntu server, and I hate PuTTY with a passion, and it was just easier to manage Linux from Linux. But I switched back again when we were acquired by a larger company that required us to use more productivity tools that didn’t run well on Linux at the time and had to to “just work” (Skype for Business, Zoom, etc).

    These days I spend most of the workday in WSL via Windows Terminal. At home I run a handful of Linux VMs atop an ESXi hypervisor installed on an old desktop. But when I’m not working, I generally just stay as far away from computers as possible.