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Written by Mx. Eddie R on 2025-01-29 at 13:42

It occurs to me, there are a set of tools that everyone uses but nobody wants to. Ffmpeg and aws come immediately to mind.

They underpin most video editing and cloud, respectively, but their native ux is so utterly cursed that there are whole industries around building new ux for those two products. They add nothing new, they just take the suckage out of using the actual tool.

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Written by pseudoramble on 2025-01-29 at 13:49

@silvermoon82 I haven't used AWS in a long time, mostly Azure. Do you have an opinion on how they compare UX wise?

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Written by Mx. Eddie R on 2025-01-29 at 13:56

@pseudoramble

I haven't used Azure directly, so.can't compare.

The AWS console is a gigantic labyrinth of tabs and tables, with filters and selectors on several axes changing the behaviour of other parts in subtle ways. It's a complex process to do even a simple task like provision a small server with all the storage, network, security, egress, etc, that it needs to basically function, and it's possible -even easy- to accidentally turn something on for thousands of dollars a month.

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Written by Mx. Eddie R on 2025-01-29 at 13:57

@pseudoramble

Services like Heroku and Render mask all that complexity and give you a selection for "small and free" to "many resources for many dollars" beside a big "Do It" button.

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