i cannot stand passive voice in a user interface! "an error was encountered" — and who encountered it, knave? who lowered their eyes from the error like a coward, meekly offering naught but a simpering generic alert to their charge, the user? have some spine
Sep 5, 2024, 9:28 PM@henry @tcannonfodder The backend shit the bed! The engineers on that team really suck. We're yelling at them right now, but you'll have to try again later. Sorry for their incompetence, and we feel your pain.
@henry we yearn for the clarity, the bravery, of HTTP 418 I'm a teapot
@henry the eldritch Error cannot be comprehended or reasoned away... there may only be encounters with It, much like spirits and premonitions appearing, begotten by no earthly being—least of all the one known as the Developer—to weary travelers, forever altering their passage henceforth...
@kayserifserif @henry some even dream of encountering one of the errors of old their fathers told them about themselves, especially when the kind calls for a new bug bounty hunt
@henry Which knave's fault is the? The Knave of Hearts?
mistakes have been made
code tumbled while dancing alone
surely not our fault
@henry Wow … love it
Allowance is important.
@henry Yah, passive voice is a tiptoe. I'm more of a scream and curse guy.
The phrase that struck me this year was the announcement from Princess Kate, who delivered devastating news in the most polite sort of way. "Tests after the operation found cancer had been present."
Merely present, and had been.