Diary of a Programmer 44: The Make Everything a Little Bit Worse Machine

ask yourself what it would look like if everything was just a little bit worse if the milk in your coffee tasted just a little sour if the cum in your mouth tasted a little bit rotten if the feather in your cap was always pushing the sharp tip of itself into your brain like a needle every time you had a new thought or a storm of emotions actually flashed lightning and electricity through the network of your great ideas then you might get a sense of what we’re dealing with as the make everything a little bit worse machine gets a little bit better at making everything a little bit worse with every major version update and it becomes a little bit easier for people who are corporations to just give up using the hands at the ends of the arms of their branches to make specific and unique products of experience here we are thinking of the great spreading of Starbucks across dry midwestern plains or a grand grab of the Gmail handle of email that is long past or the way everyone goes to either one of two sites when they want to search their second brain which is quickly becoming their first brain without thinking ask yourself what such a machine would look like you might get a picture depending on your generation of a combustion like engine with a grammaphone farting out steam as the rumble of makings vibrates curved metal pipes cylinders pistons or microscopic resistors capacitors transformers relays or retargeted affiliate marketing landing page impressions then you might have some idea of the direction in which this terribly new machine full of ancient history is perhaps leading us down a road that every human has walked and can walk and is walking and will always walk all at once as light of the natural sun setting becomes just a little less bright with each general refactor of the human experience