Lack of empathy for the potential audience + making loads of assumptions about their level of knowledge == documentation that is opaque and unreadable
@cdr @melissasage The best thing voice control is for, is allowing a device permissions to spy on you and everyone you interact with, hooray.
this sounds subtooty but it's just an errant thought. the speed with which children's cartoon Steven Universe became a warground on Tumblr left a lasting impression on me, who has seen a couple episodes and knows simultaneously too much and almost nothing about the rest of the plot
it's just that now, if I want to suggest— say— that while children's cartoon Steven Universe is not exempt from criticism and it is admirable to remain critical of the stories you invest time in, children's cartoon Steven Universe may not be important enough to self-destruct entire networks of Internet friends over,
I become acutely aware (despite the irrelevance of the comparison) that I sound like a centrist?
Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.