A lot of software is built with and without the user in mind. Ads and data collection comes standard nowadays which makes the experience feel less like a tool and more as you're the product. If a business needs to make money, that's fine, but it shouldn't come at the cost of the user.

I know Windows is slow, bloated, filled with tracking, but I do still use it. Most applications I use are either built purely for Windows or an alternative isn't sufficient on other platforms. I have tried both Linux and macOS, but I find that it's either too open to customization or has to steep of a learning curve to work with.

While I do like to make designs and want to make everything as good as possible, I'm not a designer. For this website, I've used a custom Discord skin as a design guide as I love the simplicity of it. If you've ever seen my Discord app show up on a screenshare, you'll instantly recognize the idea of the boxed elements I've used.

At lost of times I've people mention that code is 'self-explanatory', it's 'too simple', it won't be 'used much'. And they could be right, it could be a small, simple, and easily read piece of work. The issue I find is that this is only true at the time it's written.

Down the line, other people or the person who wrote it has no idea why a particular decision was made, if changing something will break or if somewhere else relies on the piece of software. Documentation is crucial at all times even if you might think today it's not needed. I've learnt the hard way that without documentation, anything can happen including breaking other systems, spending hours of necessary time understanding or breaking something that already works perfectly.

A few minutes of documentation can go a long way even if you don't notice the benefits immediately.