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Re:An odd discovery on Spotify on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @04:37AM (#32562069)
Do you have any examples? I'd like to take a peek.
Re:Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us? on Thursday August 18, 2022 @08:00AM (#32508334)
More noise, then. Don't add more noise.

Just because there's a dog turd on my front lawn, it doesn't mean everyone should start dumping all the dog turds on my front lawn.

Re:Pepsi: Breathtaking Design Strategy (2008) [pdf] on Friday July 15, 2022 @08:17AM (#32107303)
There's no such thing as a "sugar rush".
I think it's because most apps are influenced way too much by "standards" that people expect but actually sucks.

I have 2 examples of web apps working really fucking well:

Missive (https://missiveapp.com/) is an email client web app with features that should be standard in every other email client. I run it via Firefox and it's the best damn email client I've ever used. It uses JS extensively but they use it very well.

Migadu (https://migadu.com/) is the absolute golden standard of email inbox services. It's not fancy but oh my days, does it work and it's so damn easy to use. Every time I have to set up emails I get happy because these guys spent exactly 0 seconds on trying to appeal to people who equates parallax-scrolling with competence. Migadu does not use JS as far as I can tell.

As a counterpoint to both, Office 365/Outlook is a gigantic, floppy donkey dick of a web app that makes all sorts of assumptions, has 3 different interfaces and is generally just a pain in the ass to use. Somthing as simple as logging in/out is a muddled, technical mess that makes it a god damned chore to change accounts.

Re:My New Sony NW-A55 Walkman on Monday July 04, 2022 @05:51AM (#31975305)
Being inundated with notifications is not a problem with the god damned smartphone. It's a problem with you not being able to set up apps to shut the hell up if they don't have any business throwing notifications your way.

I see this argument all the time and it's completely foreign to me. I get notifications on messages, lost calls and some very specific emails regarding downtime or exceptions in production. That's it, and it works very, very well.