{"id":4644,"date":"2018-12-05T23:22:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T07:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/that-moment-when\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:33:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:33:17","slug":"that-moment-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/that-moment-when\/","title":{"rendered":"That moment when"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ugh, I should know better than to comment while upset.<\/p>\n<p>But those goddamned rounded corners in Chrome.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why there&#8217;s not customizable options. I don&#8217;t know why the font has gotten so small. I don&#8217;t know why the tabs don&#8217;t change color on hover to differentiate them. I don&#8217;t know why the address bar is black and gray font on a gray background. I don&#8217;t know why my eyes hurt from straining to read.<\/p>\n<p>All I know is that I don&#8217;t like change. And when change meets me&#8230; I guess I get a bit deranged? And also kind of rhymy.<\/p>\n<p>I definitely know better than to comment angry, but I&#8217;ve done it several times in the past. It&#8217;s an inevitable downward slide, accompanied by flailing limbs and a Caps Lock. It&#8217;s usually followed by a metaphorically regretful morning after.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t even terrible. I could have been much worse. I could also have been kinder.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes change is hard. Especially if a company doesn&#8217;t discuss things with their users and doesn&#8217;t offer a to-be-expected level of customization.<\/p>\n<p>Things like that lead to hurt feelings and a migration from Chrome to Firefox.<\/p>\n<p>And by the way, the reason I originally left Firefox for Chrome? It was because Firefox changed its appearance&#8211;adding rounded corners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ugh, I should know better than to comment while upset. But those goddamned rounded corners in Chrome. I don&#8217;t know why there&#8217;s not customizable options. I don&#8217;t know why the font has gotten so small. I don&#8217;t know why the tabs don&#8217;t change color on hover to differentiate them. I don&#8217;t know why the address&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/that-moment-when\/\" title=\"That moment when\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">That moment when<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[137,209,389],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-4644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-bitching","tag-appbad-update","tag-chrome","tag-i-hate-it"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-1cU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5594,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/short-fic-the-gray\/","url_meta":{"origin":4644,"position":0},"title":"SHORT FIC: The Gray","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"August 4, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"THE GRAYby Harper Kingsley The color drained out of the world on a Thursday. 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