design is fun because you’ll make a largely inconsequential change one day and the outcome will be either be “it comes and goes like a passing fart” or “someone writes 1000 words about what it means for how we interact with our environment” and no in between https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/iphone-broke-its-calculator/680271/
@samhenrigold More and more, I sympathize with people who hate having their tools change in an unpleasant(and unasked-for) way. Designing basic tools shouldn’t be like this! None of the software I got good at using 10 years ago still exists in a similar or functional capacity! it doesn’t feel good to one day wake up and realize somebody, somewhere, has decided you can’t do that thing you rely on anymore :[