Attractive nuisances in software design: https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2023/01/attractive-nuisances.html
A common anti-pattern where a problem has a solution that is obvious, intuitive and wrong.
@pganssle It's 2022 somewhere, right? ;)
@pganssle TIL a new name for a previously fuzzily felt concept, thanks!
@pganssle Thank you for writing this, great article and puts to words something that I've quietly been following without knowing how to explain it beyond "users only care about making their problems go away asap".
@pganssle great article. Tangentially related, lately I've been thinking quite a lot about my personal open source development philosophy. Not necessarily on the why of it (I do it because it gives me joy), but on the aspect of 'who am I doing this for'. My policy of accepting (or not) the feature requests from folks on my issue trackers ties directly into this. Haven't quite reached clarity on my exact stance yet though.
@tintvrtkovic Yeah, I have found that my relationship to open source development has dramatically changed as my life circumstances have changed, as well. Hard to set a single policy that will work for your entire life, so it’s best to stay flexible — not entirely related to what kind of feature requests to accept, except that it should probably bias you against things that will require constant upkeep in the event that you want to step back.
My goal for Q4 2022 was to get out at least one new blog post or public talk. Almost made it.