Justin is a game producer in New York City. He formerly worked at an all-girls private school. Go figure. Now his shelves are populated with game industry books. He has a Gamertag and Tweets a lot. He doesn't refer to himself in the third-person nearly as often as this text would suggest. Enjoy!

February 19

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Posit: Leopard is the buggiest, glitchiest piece of software to come out of Apple, ever. Take for example, this error message. Suddenly in 10.5.x, the way Mail.app has worked, ever since it could handle IMAP, has now changed - in my case, for the worse. No, I do not need to change my prefix. No, I do not want you to be helpful and present me this message every ten minutes. I already told you that I don’t want anything that isn’t e-mail stored on my IMAP server, via two controls in the prefs. Thanks to some engineer’s brilliant decision to try and make Mail.app just really helpful, everyone that knows what they’re doing has to suffer until a patch comes out - because the standard “fix” of turning this off in Prefs sure doesn’t work. What average consumer would understand what this error meant, anyway? This sort of garbage drives me to curse out loud at least twice a day. All they need to add is a checkbox that says “Don’t alert me again.” How hard is that? Borrow one of the thousand of those checkboxes from iTunes if there’s, like, a shortage or something! Also, see those 50 extra pixels of shadow around the window? The fact that that was captured as part of my screenshot is a goddam bug. Oh sure, I bet the same jerk who thought up the 3D Glass Dock was very proud of himself for showing off captured shadows. If I want shadows after I perform a multi-level screenshot command designed to capture a sole window I’ll add them myself afterwards! Still wouldn’t touch Windows, of course.  

Posit: Leopard is the buggiest, glitchiest piece of software to come out of Apple, ever.

Take for example, this error message. Suddenly in 10.5.x, the way Mail.app has worked, ever since it could handle IMAP, has now changed - in my case, for the worse.

No, I do not need to change my prefix. No, I do not want you to be helpful and present me this message every ten minutes. I already told you that I don’t want anything that isn’t e-mail stored on my IMAP server, via two controls in the prefs. Thanks to some engineer’s brilliant decision to try and make Mail.app just really helpful, everyone that knows what they’re doing has to suffer until a patch comes out - because the standard “fix” of turning this off in Prefs sure doesn’t work. What average consumer would understand what this error meant, anyway?

This sort of garbage drives me to curse out loud at least twice a day. All they need to add is a checkbox that says “Don’t alert me again.” How hard is that? Borrow one of the thousand of those checkboxes from iTunes if there’s, like, a shortage or something!

Also, see those 50 extra pixels of shadow around the window? The fact that that was captured as part of my screenshot is a goddam bug.

Oh sure, I bet the same jerk who thought up the 3D Glass Dock was very proud of himself for showing off captured shadows. If I want shadows after I perform a multi-level screenshot command designed to capture a sole window I’ll add them myself afterwards!

Still wouldn’t touch Windows, of course.  

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