2025-06-23 18:20:02.592191+02 by Dan Lyke 1 comments
Pretty sure that development software vendors are putting in tweaky little bullshit anti-patterns in order to make us think learning the quirks makes us experts in their particular widget sets and further lock-in.
Looking at Qt's Maintenance Tool in particular... (This GUI app could have been a command-line).
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#Comment Re: Pretty sure that development software made: 2025-06-24 00:53:42.544098+02 by: spc476
But the other force in software development doesn't incentivize becoming an expert in anything (the Javascript framework du jour, LLMs (supposedly) tracking all the details so you don't have to, etc.).
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