{"id":427,"date":"2005-05-04T21:15:40","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T02:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2005\/05\/04\/brendan-pretends-to-be-pat-from-achewood\/"},"modified":"2005-05-04T21:15:40","modified_gmt":"2005-05-05T02:15:40","slug":"brendan-pretends-to-be-pat-from-achewood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2005\/05\/04\/brendan-pretends-to-be-pat-from-achewood\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Pretends to be Pat from Achewood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, double-clicking is a terrible interface, all right?  It&#8217;s TERRIBLE and STUPID.  It&#8217;s wildly unintuitive and it distributes a conceptually <i>atomic<\/i> operation across two distinct actions!<\/p>\n<p>This is, for all of you who come over to my place and try to use Firefox and get a surprise, why my mouse&#8217;s wheel button doesn&#8217;t open a new tab.  It&#8217;s set to act like a double-click, as have been all my mice since 1998.  I could tell when I was seventeen that double-clicking is bad usability, and all Jakob Nielsen cares about is whether my links are blue!  I HATE EVERYTHING FUN!<\/p>\n<p>This has been &#8220;Brendan Pretends to be Pat from Achewood.&#8221;  Except I&#8217;m serious about double-clicking, dammit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, double-clicking is a terrible interface, all right? It&#8217;s TERRIBLE and STUPID. It&#8217;s wildly unintuitive and it distributes a conceptually atomic operation across two distinct actions! This is, for all of you who come over to my place and try to use Firefox and get a surprise, why my mouse&#8217;s wheel button doesn&#8217;t open a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angst","category-obsessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}