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-I hate how most pieces of software I use every day keeps getting worse and worse.
+I hate how almost every piece of software that I use keeps getting worse and worse.
Youtube used to keep buffering the video to completion even when paused, which was especially helpful when my internet connection was less stable: just open the video, pause, do whatever else then come back later to watch a fully buffered video. Nuh-uh, can't have that anymore. How about watching an endless stream of tiktok-style clips where controls are either non-existent or near-impossible to use without misclicks?
Google-branded phones used to be reasonably priced and came with stable Android builds. Nowadays my overpriced Pixel phone silently drops calls, which I didn't find out until enough of my friends complained that I never picked up my phone.
-My bank's Android app used to just work. It wasn't _great_, mind you, but the features that were there, worked - QR code scanning, transfers, OTP, savings deposit, boring, useful stuff. Then they got some sort of feature envy and began stuffing every conceivable mobile wallet super-app bullshit in there, which, honestly, who cares? But then they forced me to care by shoving pop-ups in my face every time I try to do the aforementioned boring stuff. _Hey we know you're trying to make a quick transfer, but have you heard about our latest {-frequent traveller bitch miles-} promotion program in collaboration with Grab? No? Sure, let us crash the whole app. Oh you're back? Have you heard about our-_ . *Fuck. You.*
+My bank's Android app used to just work. It wasn't _great_, mind you, but the features that were there, worked - QR code scanning, transfers, OTP, savings deposit. Boring, useful stuff. Then they got some sort of feature envy and began stuffing every conceivable mobile wallet super-app bullshit in there, which, honestly, who cares? But then they forced me to care by shoving pop-ups in my face every time I try to do the aforementioned boring stuff. _Hey we know you're trying to make a quick transfer, but have you heard about our latest {-frequent traveller bitch miles-} promotion program in collaboration with Grab? No? Sure, let us crash the whole app. Oh you're back? Have you heard about our-_ . *Fuck. You.*
Github used to just work, then an acquisition and a few intern seasons later, their UI slows down to a crawl and only decides to work some of the time now. Never mind the fact that they now use my open source code to feed those fancy Markov chains that have already started to make code reviews at my day job extra miserable.
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-Youtube used to keep buffering the video to completion even when paused, which was especially helpful when my internet connection was less stable: just open the video, pause" />
+Youtube used to keep buffering the video to completion even when paused, which was especially helpful when my internet connection was less stable: just open the video, pau" />
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-<h1 class="post--title">Spite-driven development, or how I ended up writing my own git server software</h1><p>I hate how most pieces of software I use every day keeps getting worse and worse.</p>
+<h1 class="post--title">Spite-driven development, or how I ended up writing my own git server software</h1><p>I hate how almost every piece of software that I use keeps getting worse and worse.</p>
<p>Youtube used to keep buffering the video to completion even when paused, which was especially helpful when my internet connection was less stable: just open the video, pause, do whatever else then come back later to watch a fully buffered video. Nuh-uh, can’t have that anymore. How about watching an endless stream of tiktok-style clips where controls are either non-existent or near-impossible to use without misclicks?</p>
<p>Google-branded phones used to be reasonably priced and came with stable Android builds. Nowadays my overpriced Pixel phone silently drops calls, which I didn’t find out until enough of my friends complained that I never picked up my phone.</p>
-<p>My bank’s Android app used to just work. It wasn’t <em>great</em>, mind you, but the features that were there, worked - QR code scanning, transfers, OTP, savings deposit, boring, useful stuff. Then they got some sort of feature envy and began stuffing every conceivable mobile wallet super-app bullshit in there, which, honestly, who cares? But then they forced me to care by shoving pop-ups in my face every time I try to do the aforementioned boring stuff. <em>Hey we know you’re trying to make a quick transfer, but have you heard about our latest <del>frequent traveller bitch miles</del> promotion program in collaboration with Grab? No? Sure, let us crash the whole app. Oh you’re back? Have you heard about our-</em> . <strong>Fuck. You.</strong></p>
+<p>My bank’s Android app used to just work. It wasn’t <em>great</em>, mind you, but the features that were there, worked - QR code scanning, transfers, OTP, savings deposit. Boring, useful stuff. Then they got some sort of feature envy and began stuffing every conceivable mobile wallet super-app bullshit in there, which, honestly, who cares? But then they forced me to care by shoving pop-ups in my face every time I try to do the aforementioned boring stuff. <em>Hey we know you’re trying to make a quick transfer, but have you heard about our latest <del>frequent traveller bitch miles</del> promotion program in collaboration with Grab? No? Sure, let us crash the whole app. Oh you’re back? Have you heard about our-</em> . <strong>Fuck. You.</strong></p>
<p>Github used to just work, then an acquisition and a few intern seasons later, their UI slows down to a crawl and only decides to work some of the time now. Never mind the fact that they now use my open source code to feed those fancy Markov chains that have already started to make code reviews at my day job extra miserable.</p>
<p>We use Microsoft cloud stuff at work, because traditional corporation. Teams used to– lol no, corporate Microsoftware has always been crap. At least they’re consistent.</p>
<p>But all of that is, ultimately, fine. I get paid to use Microsoft’s garbage software. For other shitty services that I’m not forced to touch, I just naturally touch them less and less, leaving me more free time for more rewarding hobbies, like writing and sharing more free software. If Github gets worse, I’ll just host my code elsewhere. After all, sourcehut and gitea/codeberg exist, right?</p>