So, I had an idea for a short fiction story, which might turn into a long fiction story, who knows, and I was writing a passage of it in Apple Pages, and tried turning a word italic. Like you do in any word processor, every day. For some reason, turning that word italic made the sentence before it (because of some fucking buggy page layout logic, I’m sure) become laid out in a single letter column. I mean, it looked
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I’m not shitting you. And it crashed on top of that, so I lost half the paragraph I was working on. So I’m trying my damndest now just to make some fucking text italic, and now I can’t remember what it was I wanted to write, and got inspired to write, sitting here alone in a cabin in the woods.
This should be a central law of software engineering, and I don’t know if it’s been coined before now, but
If your software has a bug that prevents the most trivial-seeming thing from happening, that bug will consume someone’s attention, and because of that they will fail to accomplish things with your software.
