Make Crap

There&#x27;s something to be said for taking your time. No, you probably won&#x27;t ever find the &quot;perfect&quot; typeface, but spending hours looking isn&#x27;t worth agonizing over either. Don&#x27;t master painters sometimes make dozens of versions of the same painting before they are satisfied?<p>If there&#x27;s anything we can learn from the links like these and the startups which get linked on HN never to be heard from again, it&#x27;s that the mad dash to constantly be visibly &quot;making crap&quot; is sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy which leads to making, well, forgettable crap. I prefer to make things that I care about, that way I can get engrossed in the process and let it take as long as I need.

So ... this is kind of relevant, at least here on OS X:<p><a href="http://xkcd.com/1015/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1015&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http://imgur.com/12yT8Ez" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;12yT8Ez</a>

I love this. But it makes me sad.. here&#x27;s why:<p>The people who actually make crap are saying to themselves &quot;Yes, absolutely. I <i>am</i> making crap.&quot; The people who <i>think</i> they&#x27;re making crap (but spinning in circles trying to find the perfect font, color palette, etc) are also saying to themselves &quot;Yes, absolutely. I <i>am</i> making crap.&quot; Sadly, those circles are the illusion of progress. Something is changing, must be making progress, and getting stuff done, right?

An important life lesson is that no matter how awesome and perfect you think something is, its creator(s) see all the flaws and things they wish they&#x27;d done differently.

Can you make this into a wall poster?

PUNCTUATION IT&#x27;S OVERRATED<p>Jape apart, I don&#x27;t fully agree with the message. It&#x27;s never going to be perfect, but you should try to make it good. There is a balance to be stricken between good and done.

and this &#x27;creation&#x27; made it into front-page. WTF?

This reminds me of the timecube website.

I wish I could downvote this crap.

nice touch with the 3 decimal precision for font sizes.

I like the idea of single message websites and I&#x27;ve thought about doing one.<p>My idea was more like &quot;multiple open letters directed to a particular company, about their technology products&quot; but then I thought - eh, first world problems, not worth the effort. Maybe it&#x27;s just more fun to imagine it.