Ancestors

Written by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems on 2025-01-06 at 00:01

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th January 2025

https://awful.systems/post/3226912

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Written by Steve on 2025-01-08 at 07:43

Just want to share this great term & definition “hyperkludge” coined by Jonathan Korman (@miniver on bsky and masto)

miniver.blogspot.com/2023/01/hyperkludge-n.html

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Toot

Written by David Gerard on 2025-01-09 at 19:40

ehh. even in the original text it rapidly decays into anything that annoys him is a hyperkludge. Successful things have problems that are only problems of success.

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Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2025-01-09 at 20:12

Saying that Excel is not and never was a good solution for any problem feels like a rather blinkered, programmer-brained technique.

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Written by Steve on 2025-01-10 at 19:50

I love the word, the definition, but I agree with so few of his examples.

I latched on to it because it fit so well with my regular criticisms of tech products, particularly saas shit

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