Tyler King

Wouldn't it be nice if when your phone rang it said "Dentist confirming your appointment"? Obviously it could be abused, but I feel like normally you know what types of calls to expect so you could screen pretty effectively.

I'm amazed that all cell phones don't all come with the ability to send calls from unrecognized numbers straight to voicemail. I'm not going to pick up anyway, so why ring? Better but harder: A way to display a text "reason for call" that appears while ringing.

I was happily using the old context system in React. Just took the time to learn how the new one works and, I mean, sorry to be a hater, but it really doesn't seem like a good approach. This is the first time I've felt doubt about the taste/decisions in a new version of React.

This gets to what I think the core problem is with Amazon's UX: they treat everything like ecommerce. Their video offering is terrible because they refuse to build a real Netflix-style app. They think you can just add each video as an item to an ecommerce store.

When looking at a book on http://Amazon.com , you can add the Audible edition to a wish list, but it adds it to your Amazon wish list, not your Audible one, so now I have two different lists. To cap it off, I spent ~5 minutes trying to figure out how to subscribe to Audible

Stories in "Amazon is terrible at UX", the Audible edition: The Audible iOS app has you add items to your wish list, but you can't see the wish list from the app (I think). When viewing the wish list online, you can't remove something once you've bought it, so it's there forever

Every time I use MS Word, it does a bunch of clever auto-complete stuff to modify what I'm typing. Every single thing it does is wrong. I never want it. It's never helpful.

It seems like more and more, contracts (apartment lease, wedding planner, etc.) have extremely onerous terms. My new lease is literally saying that even if my landlord kills me we can't sue. These types of "no one will actually read this" contracts should be illegal.

I've been put on some sort of "people to spam about tech conferences in St. Louis" list. I'm surprised how many local events appear to be buying this list, and I'm very curious which event I attend that thought it was ok to sell my information.

I love getting emails like this from customers: "...I am 71 years old, and I feel compelled to say that I have never, ever, ever received such awesome support from ANY company I've ever dealt with."

While I'm complaining, I feel like most of the syntax sugar in modern javascript makes the code harder to read. I know it involves less typing, but e.g. building complex functionality on one line by chaining a ton of functions together makes this stuff really opaque for me

Overall I find the react documentation to be really good, but I've spent all day trying to figure out React Transition Groups and it just doesn't make any sense. The docs make no sense to me.

This is one of the saddest aspects of how big tech companies are getting. There are a ton of $100MM/year products that would be awesome for the world, but that doesn't move the needle for Apple/Google/MS so those products don't get built.https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1042142474875985920 …

This is hilarious. In the VC world, being profitable is indistinguishable from being out of business. Makes sense. Once a company is profitable, VCs no longer hold power over them, so they can't collect rent anymore.https://twitter.com/indievc/status/1042089818333642753 …

Buying into Apple's ecosystem has always felt like a deal with the devil. Get a great unified experience, but give up openness and support a user-hostile company. Now every tech company is just as bad. In a world where they're all devils, Apple becomes a lot more appealing.

Instead of saying "can we schedule a call sometime between 9-5 Central time" and expect them to convert, you'd just say "my business hours are 23:00-7:00"

Most people seem to want Daylight Saving Time year-round. I get why, but how crazy is it that it seems easier to literally change how we measure time than it would be for people to work 8-4 instead of 9-5? I still vote for no time zones or DST. Same time everywhere in the world.

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