Annoying Technology

Even when the tab bar is collapsed, the thumb is still inexplicably un-grabbable if it’s below a certain threshold in the viewport. Although it’s hard to be sure if it’s actually broken or just a “skill issue” when the visible touch target is less than half a millimeter wide. (As it is on my 13 mini…) This is hard to show, I tried recording a video – but without seeing the finger itself it’s just nothing happening or the UI jumping around as the phone misinterprets it as dragging the entire…

It’s almost impressive what a miserable, useless piece of crap the Shortcuts app remains. First off: No actual concept of versioning or upgrades for shared shortcuts. Sharing shortcuts happens via weird iCloud URLs rather than being an actual aspect of the system. So to update a shortcut, do you just add it again? No indication of what that will do before you press the button. Will it error out? Will it create a duplicate? Will it update/replace the existing one? Alright, just risk it – now iOS…

Your browser does not support the video tag. Hold up. I thought Liquid Glass was supposed to make UI elements not be in the way of my ✨content✨?

Setting aside the fact that I needed to sign up for an account before I was even able to enable Bluetooth on my new Denon speaker, this screen in its app was funny: The Update Later button remained disabled. I waited for several minutes, switched to other apps and back a few times to give it a chance to update (the button state, I mean) but no dice. Not a big deal because I could just update later by… not updating now. If I had actually needed the app as opposed to just using the speaker as a…

The two cardinal sins of displaying image attachments on social media or instant messengers – cropping and overlays. Even my most normie friends these days have learned to send a “might be cropped” warning alongside photos or screenshots where important details are not right in the center. Because we’ve all been burned often enough by some smart algorithm that had to shave 20 pixels off, just so the result fits the beauty ideals of some idiotic design instead of being actually useful in the r...

Call me crazy, but isn’t Siri is kinda… suggesting… that I do in fact have Slack, YouTube and Overcast on my phone? Meaning that those should be search terms that have results? (Search was actually just completely broken until I rebooted – nothing showed any results.)