aka @JWBananas
aka @JWBananas

I will go slightly out of my way to step on that crunchy looking leaf.

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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • (you can disable it but you don’t get the space back)

    This can certainly be annoying. But if you think about it from a UX perspective, what would happen if you could?

    What happens if you disable it, use the space, and then enable it again?

    Where does everything go that you placed there?

    Does it just shift down? What if it can’t because of other content on the page? Do you just shift it to a new page? What if there is content in the way across multiple pages? Does that all get shifted to a jumbled mess on a new page?

    What if you just didn’t let the user enable it again unless the space was cleared? Would that be too confusing for less capable users?

    Sometimes UX designers do seemingly dumb things for very smart reasons.












  • But the larger issue among the professionals I spoke to, and one that will likely take many more product cycles for Apple to truly fix, is one of trust. Apple, the business behemoth that it is, still has a reputation to build in the enterprise space. In order to become a go-to purchase for studios, Apple doesn’t just need to make the Mac Pro more competitive on price — it needs to reestablish itself as a brand that industries can rely on for years to come. And it needs to make some amends.

    This, basically. Is it going to sell in huge numbers? No. But canceling it would be bad for the brand.





  • That’s great that you found something that worked for you and for others. And I respect your stance on cost.

    But it doesn’t change the fact that an experiment that only runs through the pre-wash cycle is at best misleading when the results that are important are that of the full cycle. And it also doesn’t change my impression that you used a fundamentally flawed experiment to try to make a logical argument, which was then contradicted in your follow-up.

    It’s just not a great look.

    If the point of the second video was “I was wrong” (versus “I’m still right but for different reasons”) then I probably wouldn’t have unsubscribed. Your moving of the goalposts (which just triggers too many memories of growing up with narcissists) just confirms that was a good choice.

    But I do like your content about LED holiday lights, and I will be back to see what you find this season.

    For what it’s worth, adding a little citric acid should be more cost effective than putting more detergent in the prewash cup.


  • I came for the traffic signals. I cringed through the overly-long CED saga. I left after the dishwashers.

    I’ll still pop in seasonally though, for the latest on proper LED holiday lights.


    Dishwashing video #1: Detergent pods must be bad, because dishwashers have a pre-wash dispenser. So if you use pods, you aren’t using enough detergent!

    Here’s my demonstration of how using detergent during pre-wash results in more cleaning occurring during pre-wash (which, you know, isn’t the full cycle and isn’t how people use dishwashers).

    Dishwashing video #2: Actually, I was totally wrong. But detergent pods are still bad, because they result in using too much detergent and are wasteful!