Kristofer Baxter

@kristoferbaxter.bsky.social

Opinions my own.

Bought a Rivian a few months ago and while I want to love it… it’s just not there. Software is inadequate and buggy, hardware is failing a ton, and service is months out from when issues occur. Please make this better Rivian! I want you to succeed.

Was saddened to see a poor UI implementation from Netflix today. Prompted to add my mobile number to account, and it didn’t work with iOS built in autofill for both the number and the text code afterward. It’s a trend I’m seeing more of, poor implementations of seemingly basic functionality.

I feel bad about this: Saw a bartender marrying two bottles of very high end liquor and reported it to him and the manager. Did this away from everyone else, but it makes me feel guilty for getting the person in trouble.

Had this proposal a few years ago for a standardized set of features to be advertised as passing to domains from user-agents. It’d be a yearly conformance list, and a user-agent could advertise it passed once it achieved all the results from the shared list.

Rediscovery is one of humanity’s greatest gifts. Sometimes the second, third, or hundredth time something is discovered is when it applies true value at moving us all forward. Jealousy due to rediscovery is also, funny enough, one of our worst traits.