(Warning, this is not a typical Stomme poes rant. It’s far worse, and I can understand if mods decide it needs to be removed. Sitepoint is typically, and by its nature, a supportive place where people don’t sling monkey turds around and especially not at those coming seeking knowledge. But an open declaration has been set, called “Baloney” on real human beings who damn well exist.)
Well duh, cripples obviously stay home, sitting in darkened rooms waiting for the Day Nurse to come and wipe their butts and for family to come give pity visits-- they don’t actually… use computers or anything. Let alone have actual jobs where they need to access, create, or use websites, among other things.</sarcasm>
The fact that we continually have to fight for our basic civil rights while random people who don’t give any shits just waltz into this industry and then have the balls to tell us that we don’t deserve anything that works because following the most basic, simple, and easy web standards is just too damn hard… I’m gonna call it what it is, laziness. Because look at me-- how is a {{ slow person }} like me still fully capable of following basic web standards while it’s too hard for someone who only needs to do half the work I do for the same result?? Lazy. Thoughtless. Cruel.
I always wonder, out of pure curiosity, why anyone bothers entering the web development world being completely insistent of NOT learning or following the standards or caring about users. Is it because they ENJOY making others’ lives utter shite or is it that it earns more money than flipping burgers and hey if it makes life harder for some cripples well, who cares, they’re not really people?? Are simple web standards baloney? Or is the we the actual human beings who are baloney? Screw people, just get paid??? And when you end up with pneumonia that your body decides to keep attacking some organ until it’s nothing than a pile of scar tissue, did you suddenly stop being a human being? Did you magically lose your rights or something? Did you go from a “normal person” who uses technology and has friends to a lonely (and apparently mythical) thing that counts the seconds until death?
I sometimes think: I can’t wait for the day Civil Engineers decide to do the same so all the crap around us can just break and the only way ordinary citizens can get bridges and buildings and food safe is by hiring some scuzzball lawyer to sue someone who couldn’t. Be. Arsed. To learn their craft. As if the only way we can get quality anything is by suing and the fear of suing, instead of people building things properly (not perfectly, we don’t demand Godliness, just trying to follow the standards) in the first place because that’s the whole point of building things, it’s FOR PEOPLE and that’s why a bunch of volunteers spend their free time writing standards, and why TBL wasted his time inventing hyperlinks. For people.
I don’t tend to go off so hard on people obviously learning and new and trying to figure out new things in web-dev, because nobody enters this industry knowing all the things, or even some of the things. I came in knowing nothing and asking all the stupid questions and writing the shittiest steaming piles of code you can think of. But someone coming in with the full attitude of “Stuff users, just pay me” doesn’t deserve (yet) any help, advice or sympathy, because it’s a wasted effort that only adds to the nearly-deliberate hurting, frustration and discrimmination of others. We shouldn’t encourage and help some people push other people’s faces into the mud for fun or profit or any damn reason.
This is an evil thought, but I hope some day you end up in our shoes and discover how much the world would then think you’d be better off in your darkened room awaiting those butt-wiping visits, while we instead actually have plenty of capabilities, knowledge, dreams and things we can do to better the world. Your world. Our world.
Sometimes things just need to be pointed at and called out. And now I’m going to leave before I pull a Godwin.