https://billroper.dreamwidth.org/ Bill Roper's Journal - Dreamwidth Studios Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:49:20 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios billroper personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/1037115/263862 https://billroper.dreamwidth.org/ 81 100 https://billroper.dreamwidth.org/3256242.html Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:49:20 GMT https://billroper.dreamwidth.org/3256242.html I have now posited that there is an "escape room" theory of computer user-interface design. The object here is to hide the controls that are required to perform a particular function so that you must carefully search the entirety of the user-interface to find the correct menu selection or button to press to get your work done.<br /><br />I am not sure why this is a good idea.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=billroper&ditemid=3256242" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://billroper.dreamwidth.org/3256242.html programming home tech computers musings public 0 https://billroper.dreamwidth.org/2798424.html Tue, 28 Apr 2020 02:37:51 GMT https://billroper.dreamwidth.org/2798424.html It is amazing how leaving one line out of your code can produce the most remarkable infinite loop.<br /><br />The code is better now.<br /><br />*sigh*<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=billroper&ditemid=2798424" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://billroper.dreamwidth.org/2798424.html programming work musings public 0 https://billroper.dreamwidth.org/2794929.html Wed, 15 Apr 2020 03:35:13 GMT https://billroper.dreamwidth.org/2794929.html I went to add some code to one of our projects today. I got a certain number of steps into it, went to call a method, and then realized *that* method is in a different branch.<br /><br />Sooner or later, we must ship all of these things so that I have all the code that I need everywhere.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=billroper&ditemid=2794929" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://billroper.dreamwidth.org/2794929.html musings programming work public 0