• ValiantDust
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      128 days ago

      I would never paste code into a Word document. I use Notepad++ for that.

    • Sʏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ
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      98 days ago

      I’ve had more than one person I work with take screenshots of their desktop, paste them into a word document, then attach the word document to an email to get me to help them with their problem. This has the same energy.

      • @[email protected]
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        37 days ago

        I’ve always wished Markdown was better supported in email. I work with external companies’ APIs a lot where email is the medium, and typically I use a Windows monospace font for code snippets (I’m on macOS but there are a handful of monospaced fonts that work on both).

        It’s very clunky, and I wish the backtick notation would work out of the box. Whoever decided HTML in email was the way to go should be shot.

        • Sʏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ
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          27 days ago

          I completely agree, and in general working with email programmatically sucks. MIME is a mimefield.

      • @[email protected]
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        38 days ago

        Used to work in a place where, to get credentials, a used would need to simple send an email from their mail servers and would be enough… One of them would write a fancy Please add used x letter, print it, have the Head of Whatever sign it, scan it onto non-OCR pdf, then mail it… joy.

      • Null User Object
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        88 days ago

        True story, about 20-25 years ago, a radio station in my home town was playing ads for some new local business doing web design.

        After hearing the ad on my drive to work for the umpteen billionth time I finally got curious and went to check out their own website (I they’re charging people to build websites, they’re own website must be a pretty awesome demonstration of their skills, right?)

        The website looked like absolute garbage and, upon viewing the source, the meta tags clearly betrayed the fact that it was created in Word.

        I can only imagine how much money they were paying to run those ads. I even considered the possibility I was being pranked somehow.

          • @[email protected]
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            27 days ago

            I don’t care what you say, the Apple store circa 2001 is iconic and definitely has that “lickability” factor that Jobs loved so much about the original OS X’s Aqua UI.

      • @[email protected]
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        27 days ago

        I started learning HTML at the age of 10 using FrontPage and Word. There were entire utilities dedicated to stripping out Word’s atrocious HTML at the time.