I want to take some special time and bag on Stack Overflow a bit. If you don't know what that is post ANY question about coding and you will likely happen upon their website (or one associated with it)
Before I go any further let me preface this with the fact that in the past they have been helpful for javascript stuff I was lost on. However the last couple times I had some issues I got some real snotty elitist vibes from the people on there and just deleted my questions because fuck them.
I guess after you voluntarily sit on a website long enough answering questions without pay you get bitter, jaded and spiteful for some reason. Also the whole "reward system" in place is a bit of a pain in the ass. It's too subjective. If some ass hat doesn't "get" the question they will penalize you in some way or another.
I wish there was just a service with a live chat you could message someone at any hour of the day with a question and they would give you the most direct honest answer they could.
Me: "Hey I want to not show some HTML5 video on a mobile device without making a separate site for mobile"
Bob: "Oh that's easy. Try using a media query"
Me: "Oh wow that's great. Why was that so hard to find online?"
Bob: "You were probably looking on Stack Exchange"
Me: "....yah...."
Bob: "Those guys are assholes"
Me: "Let me paypal you some beer money"
Is that so hard?
Thursday, August 14, 2014
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
De(word)pressing
Why must web design be such a fickle whore?
It's interesting to me the things we sacrifice/ trade off for the sake of "ease". I have had to begrudgingly learn more and more about my nemesis Wordpress (keep your enemies closer or something like that). While their design style has become more the norm I still feel stilted by it.
I miss the days when it was "easy" to teach someone to update their website. Now it's more of a foreign language than it ever was. I guess that is what gave the rise to CMS. A nice box to put all of the controls in so people could feel like they had power over something that is so remarkably difficult in a number of ways.
It can be frustrating to make something only to realize it would be/have been much easier to just give in and make someone pony up 40-60$ for a template someone else got the headaches over.
I think I need to go to sleep...
It's interesting to me the things we sacrifice/ trade off for the sake of "ease". I have had to begrudgingly learn more and more about my nemesis Wordpress (keep your enemies closer or something like that). While their design style has become more the norm I still feel stilted by it.
I miss the days when it was "easy" to teach someone to update their website. Now it's more of a foreign language than it ever was. I guess that is what gave the rise to CMS. A nice box to put all of the controls in so people could feel like they had power over something that is so remarkably difficult in a number of ways.
It can be frustrating to make something only to realize it would be/have been much easier to just give in and make someone pony up 40-60$ for a template someone else got the headaches over.
I think I need to go to sleep...
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