By @edent · swearing · 2 comments · 350 words · read ~571 times.
The British town of Scunthorpe is a delightful place to visit. It is a perfectly normal town, with just one tiny problem. Its name is often unfairly redacted online because it contains a "rude" word. See if you can spot it… This sort of overreach is generally known as the Scunthorpe Problem. I ran into […]
Continue reading →By @edent · doorslam mobile swearing usability ux · 3 comments · 500 words · read ~966 times.
For the last few months, I've been curating a Tumblr of a very specific annoyance. I'll let Aral Balkan take credit for inspiring me. https://twitter.com/aral/status/204145820008853504 First, a quick definition: In software engineering, an anti-pattern (or antipattern) is a pattern used in social or business operations or software engineering that may be commonly used but is […]
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