Unholy Things in Computing

Unholy things:

• Excessive whitespace design (hard on the eyes)
• Javascript bloat (slow)
• Bloat in general / Technical Debt. Human life is not long enough to deal with every program being large.
• Loading screens (slow)
• Pop ups (interruptions)
• Tracking, analytics (Breaks the golden rule. Perpetuates a rat race economy)(computers that take advantage of your behavior as you use them)
• Maze programs or websites
• Memory obfuscation (paging)
• Excessive dependencies / libraries (npm / node.js comes to mind)
• Dependence on an online/cloud service
• Having a program fail and not notify the user (failing silently), or not giving the user enough information in the error message.
• Security (a demonistic self perpetuating industry)(endless cat and mouse chase)
• Predatory computing (see tracking).
• Malware (doesn't exist in an honest world)
• Wild West AI/LLM Industry. Everyone working for themselves, no collaboration. No central database for LLMs.
• Foolishly fighting against AI/LLM with things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis_(software) (it's hopeless).
• GDPR - The Europeans made the internet worse, by requiring popups that pester users about cookies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation How many seconds have been lost to accept or not accept pop ups.
• The word "Automagically"
• RTFM (If you actually read man pages, you will find that they are typically bloated beyond practical usage). This ties back to busybox > most normal programs. Alpine > Average Linux Bloatdist.
• Encryption making old internet browsers unusable.