The World Wide Web turned 30 today! Still my favourite ongoing human project. Also, pretty cool when you consider DA is 20. I'm actually on Saturn rightnow, so I'd better post this before I lose signal for a day or so.. :peace:
Hello darkness, my old friend~ It's been a while since I've used my journal as an actual-journal. :tea: I like making programs/software/shmeeder-deeders. It's difficult and a lot of fun. It's also almost-impossible to get software right if your target audience is another human being. For instance: A few years ago, I was looking up for some information on StackOverflow (it's the programming-help-community that FINALLY dethroned ExpertsExchange), and somebody had said something clever in a comment. I visited their profile, and it boldly declared that this person had "0 contributions" - because the site only counted 'full' answers-or-whatever as 'contributions.' I class it as a total empathy failure - and the fact that this software-making-community was inevitably going to be setting an example for the rest of the web made me feel like empathy-in-software just wasn't gonna get any better any time soon. New versions of old things are the hardest. Usually somebody takes their eye
