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by GordonS 1693 days ago
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!

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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.