Althouse finds her inner blakeyrat
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If you're not familiar, she's a retired law professor who has been blogging daily since 2004 at blogspot. I think the comment moderation drives her crazy and she's looking to move to a different platform:
"Should Your Blog Be on Medium, WordPress, Substack, or Ghost?/A realistic comparison of 2020's top blogging platforms."
This is a question I have — right now, quite pressing — and the piece is on Medium , but okay.... it's on topic. I've been looking at WordPr...
I really hate Wordpress. Hate.
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What is all that?! "Title Attribute"? "CSS Classes"? "Link Relationship"?!! As if the parenthetical "XFN" explains it! It's just abusive. I hate them.
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It's interesting that is comes from a lawyer. Just imagine people reacted like this.... "foreclosure ? "precedent? Habla Corpus!? That's just abusive. I hate them."
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I went to do an oil change on my car, and there is this cap labeled 10W30 and I'm supposed to just know that's where the oil goes???
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in Althouse finds her inner blakeyrat:
It's interesting that is comes from a lawyer.
That was my first thought. A profession with more overly complicated jargon per square inch -- complaining that blogs are "too complicated"..
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@The_Quiet_One said in Althouse finds her inner blakeyrat:
I went to do an oil change on my car, and there is this cap labeled 10W30 and I'm supposed to just know that's where the oil goes???
I usually put oil in the pipe under the 710 cap.
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@The_Quiet_One I have a 15W40 cap, does that mean mine doesn't take oil?
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@mott555 most likely it doesn't. If it does, you must repair it ASAP for your own safety.
Edit: inb4 someone enlightens me that "take oil" doesn't mean the same thing as analogous words in Poland.
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@Gąska said in Althouse finds her inner blakeyrat:
Edit: inb4 someone enlightens me that "take oil" doesn't mean the same thing as analogous words in Poland.
Wait, not potatoes and vodka?
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@boomzilla said in Althouse finds her inner blakeyrat:
If you're not familiar, she's a retired law professor who has been blogging daily since 2004 at blogspot.
I'm not totally unsympathetic to what she's saying. It's kind of like you got some "Make Your Own Will" software that required you to know legal terminology that the average person didn't know.
I even had to look up XFN, and my reaction was, WTF?
The traditional solution for that kind of issue is to hide features like that in an "Advanced" section, so as not to confuse the average user.
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@jinpa said in Althouse finds her inner blakeyrat:
I even had to look up XFN, and my reaction was, WTF?
Xtreme Fight Night? Well, for a political blog, that seems not entirely inappropriate.
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@The_Quiet_One Cars come with manuals that explain exactly this kind of stuff.
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@anonymous234 said in Althouse finds her inner blakeyrat:
Cars come with manuals that explain exactly this kind of stuff.
I've not seen any owners' car manuals with details of the CAN bus in.
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@boomzilla imagine opening the advanced settings menu and then getting angry that the settings it presents are advanced
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Althouse finds her inner blakeyrat:
@dkf said in Althouse finds her inner blakeyrat:
car ... CAN bus
Car no bus. Car be small.
car must believe in car
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so apparently XFN is this:
what they should actually be referring to is HTML 4.01 section 12.2:
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@dkf No, but I'm not sure why that's relevant.
The WordPress equivalent of that would be writing some PHP functions and I don't think any user has to do that.
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@ben_lubar said in Althouse finds her inner blakeyrat:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Althouse finds her inner blakeyrat:
@dkf said in Althouse finds her inner blakeyrat:
car ... CAN bus
Car no bus. Car be small.
car must believe in car
car must in CAN
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@HardwareGeek Car must implement CAN using Ada
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@Placeholder I bet some automotive company has done just that.
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