We use one very old software package. Every modern one asks "save? Yes/no". This one asks "discard? Yes/no". And out of habit you tend to click yes to save it. I warn every junior for this trap, but they all fall for it at least once.
this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2025
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All would be avoided if the developers followed the first rule of button naming.
https://uxmovement.com/buttons/5-rules-for-choosing-the-right-words-on-button-labels/
Button naming standards are written in the blood of junior engineers (by the senior engineers)
This would improve most documents.
"Who needs UX/UI people. I'm full stack baby!"
Makes this.
This is a simple copy/paste error. Cut the hate.
There is no cut option here. I can either save the hate or trash it - what do you prefer?
Fuck QA. I'M FUUULL STAAAAAAACK!
Save to /dev/null
This is what happens in your brain when you tell yourself to remember something.
Took me a second.
gemini logo in the bottom right corner???
i checked the twitter account and it's in russian. i guess they used nano banana to translate the text in an image of text. beautiful
Not going to lie, It took me a second.
I had a password retrieval this week that asked me to enter my old password to set a new password.
And now this.
Oh well. We are all doomed.
Thats where I saved my hopes and dreams.
Classic people using the recycle bin to save important stuff