Elias Mårtenson on Nostr: I just read an blog post (on Medium, which somehow feels appropriate in this case). ...
I just read an blog post (on Medium, which somehow feels appropriate in this case). The content was, well, OK. It was pointing out yet another way in which modern software development management is broken.
However, it was illustrated with a series of supervillain-style illustrations that felt wrong. This in itself isn't very rare. A lot of people just shove random illustrations into their blog posts.
But in this case, the illustrations followed a single theme, and it was just... well... wrong.
Then I noticed that in one of the pictures the hero held out their hands, and being some kind of monster character, they didn't have 5 fingers. But each hand had a different number of fingers.
That's when I went back and realised why it simply didn't work. This wasn't just random pictures, but the author had tried to make it thematic. The end result was even worse than what you'd have ended up with if they had simply used some stock images.
However, it was illustrated with a series of supervillain-style illustrations that felt wrong. This in itself isn't very rare. A lot of people just shove random illustrations into their blog posts.
But in this case, the illustrations followed a single theme, and it was just... well... wrong.
Then I noticed that in one of the pictures the hero held out their hands, and being some kind of monster character, they didn't have 5 fingers. But each hand had a different number of fingers.
That's when I went back and realised why it simply didn't work. This wasn't just random pictures, but the author had tried to make it thematic. The end result was even worse than what you'd have ended up with if they had simply used some stock images.