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Grumpy Website
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Grumpy Website is a personal blog at grumpy.website about design and programming. Since 2017, 60 different Hacker News readers have linked it 128 times, most often “Show HN: Showcase of bad UX”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Showcase of bad UX20 people · 20 mentions · first linked 2017-12-19
- Grumpy Website – a blog about everything wrong with modern web & tech5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-12-25
- How UI degrades over time3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-12-07
- Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-06-10
- No One at Google Understands How Google Accounts Work (2018)2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-06-13
- The low information density in a Google search for ‘dog’2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-21
What Hacker News says?
They did center everything correctly for decades, do you think it was a mistake? https://grumpy.website/938
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on “Hardest problem in computer science: centering things”Submitted Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome as a story · 1343 points
HN discussionThere already is something like it (though not Apple-exclusive): https://grumpy.website/
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on “Apple M5 chip”Submitted Renault's driver UX is a disaster waiting to happen as a story · 401 points
HN discussionWow, this one's actually crazy! https://grumpy.website/post/0Sar_W_5D I already mis-swipe in my Reddit app and downvote instead of upvote... the "small" vs "large" swipe option feels like something that gets mis-input a lot. Okay for something inconsequential like votes, but I can't imagine deleting something I wanted to save because of it.
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on “Perfectly Cropped”Submitted Grumpy Website – a blog about everything wrong with modern web & tech as a story · 359 points
HN discussionGrumpy Website deserves to be mentioned here: https://grumpy.website/
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on “Perfectly Cropped”Submitted Gmail Icons are Hard as a story · 324 points
HN discussionIn a vein similar to your annoying technology site, you would probably appreciate https://grumpy.website/ One of my favorite blogs of all time.
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on “If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs”Submitted Firefox changing its tab design as a story · 41 points
HN discussion> Why enclose PWA in quotes? It's twitter's mobile site that they extended to cover both desktop and PWA. As a result, it's quite bad on all fronts and judging by the number of bugs that are lingering with no fixes, abandoned. At least they managed to almost fix the epileptic scroll position [1] > I don't have to give Twitter access to detailed information about my system while still using a full-featured, first-par…
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on “Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible”Submitted Show HN: Showcase of bad UX as a story · 24 points
HN discussion"You'd think only one of those is a joke. I don't know anymore." https://grumpy.website/post/0PhBPyfR-
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on “Please stop asking me to use the app”Submitted I propose a new design term: "total design failure" as a story · 19 points
HN discussionThe article points to an interesting UI bug in macOS, text alignment in buttons is weird. Cf https://grumpy.website/post/0UfwgmMDe
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on “Let’s fix font size”Submitted How UI degrades over time as a story · 16 points
HN discussion> Of course there are ancient, rarely updated guidelines You mean well researched guidelines with tons of evidence behind their decisions [1] that are as relevant today as they were 20 years ago. > almost all applications ignore. That most current applications ignore because people think they are ancient rarely updated guidelines. This is especially evident in the MacOS world. HIG were the guide on the platform, and…
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on “The end of the nice GTK button”Submitted Please don't put checkmarks in checkboxes before I checked them as a story · 15 points
HN discussionOnly in a way that we are in the same website business for a while: https://grumpy.website and https://annoying.technology
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on “Local First, Forever”Submitted Famous YouTube UI Consistency as a story · 10 points
HN discussionBroken windows theory. In case of Linux and Windows you can see their effort to improve things. Their failures and shortcomings stem from either decades of legacy (Windows) or lack of overarching vision and resources (Linux). Whereas MacOS... It has always been billed (and billed itself) as the UI/UX front runner. It was (or was trying to be) polished, consistent, good. Apple had Human Interface Guidelines in as ear…
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on “Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro”Submitted GitHub UI Redesign Proposal as a story · 7 points
HN discussion> The web has come a long way since, and in five years to a decade could be competitive. The web is always 5 to 10 years away from being competitive. Meanwhile Twitter struggled to implement such a trivial thing as a virtual list on the web: https://grumpy.website/post/0RQvmdNmN It took them almost a year after the resign to fix most of these issues. While breaking or half-breaking functionality for almost everythin…
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on “Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native”Submitted Even in 2020, sharing a file is still an unsolved problem as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> I also really dislike the App Store. [...] I used to _love_ it, I would check weekly for new things I used to do this too, and like you, I've now grown to really dislike it. My reason is different, though: the App Store app has _plummeted_ in quality. It's now so hard to use, I don't bother using it. 1. The UI is all over the place. Some UI controls cause pages to swipe up from the bottom. Some cause pages to swip…
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on “We are leaving the Apple App Store and all its problems”Submitted Grumpy.website as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe problem isn't just that. These screens are actual safety hazards. Whatever you display in a showroom doesn't justify this: https://grumpy.website/1665
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on “Hidden interface controls that affect usability”Submitted Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome (2019) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWow. Thank you for this! My recent gripe is the Recent list: https://grumpy.website/post/0Spuij-7C
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on “Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore principles of design (2015)”Submitted Problems with Material Design's color contrast and accessibility as a story · 4 points
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