This sad, dusty corner is used as a small, creaky and over painted stage for my frequent mini-rages at crappy, lazy, dopey design I'm affronted by on a daily basis. Before this there was dumbdesign.com which I let lapse many years ago. The domain name was bought by ‘Team Sushi’ for reasons unknown (site looks dead, obviously not my content). I'm not bothered to buy it back. So anyway, I thought I'd revive it in spirit and continue recording anything that I happen upon that seems like poor design, anything that I misconstrue as poorly designed and anything that really just grinds my gears. As I age into senility, I can look back and chuckle softly at the inconsequential dross that irked me.

This site is as simple as I could make it - no javascript garbage, insufferable cookie notifications, trackers, CCTV, remotely loaded, auto-playing video ads (give me strength) or any of the crap that ruins all web sites. The text is selectable, it's quick despite running on a calculator cheap server, and it's hosted for free cheap (yay). I tried making it ‘responsive’ for different ‘viewports’ e.g., desktop and mobile but Jesus Christ is that not straightforward. I couldn't wrap my brain around trying to reconcile the physical sizes of screens and viewports with pixel density and triggering styles at a particular threshold based on pixel specific widths. Whatever I did, the results were too different between browsers and formats. How anyone would want to work in the front-end web development game baffles me.

If you have any comments, suggestions, praise or complaints, feel free to email me at enraged@

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