boredom
The Great Blight of Dullness
Abstruse dullness
Distraction
What hell is
Unborable
The Pale King
Why Do All Websites Look the Same?
Don't Write the Tedious Thing
The Right Tools for the Job
A representational tension
The teleology of tool-building
Urban form and grain
Software often feels inevitable
Software often feels inevitable because its backstory is often invisible. We click a download link, run an installer, and suddenly have a new tool to use. Yet this conceals years of human decisions, experiences, and constraints shaping software outcomes that are in no way pre-destined.