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by rzzzwilson 1693 days ago
Missing: frustration.
3 comments

Also missing: blind fury

I occasionally find myself feeling like this after frustration builds to a crescendo, and I've spent hours trying to get something to work that should have taken no time at all!

For the past 6 months or so I've asked myself if this is all so hard... because from looking at how long it takes me to do stuff and how often others fail at it, or the questions they ask me, it MUST BE HARD, because no one around me is all that good at it, and it takes us ALL way too long to do stuff that looks like it should be simple and easy.

I think that acknowledging that something is hard gives you some power over it. Like if we acknowledged that writing documentation was hard, maybe we would apply more resources to writing documentation.

That is when I truly hate technology and how bad all UX is.
The main one, frustration sometimes kill the whole day. At the end the work is done in 30 minutes.
That was also a glaring omission to my eyes. It's the emotion I associate the most with programming, although I guess it's a mix of some of the ones mentioned in the article.