Global News BC: Narrow strip of concrete voted Greater Victoria’s ‘jankiest sidewalk’ https://globalnews.ca/news/9897954/victorias-jankiest-sidewalk-contest/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #victoriainfrastructure #badinfrastructure #jankiestsidewalk #GreaterVictoria #saanichsidewalk #walkonvictoria #badsidewalk #RoadSafety #jankyjune #Victoria #Saanich #Canada #Safety #janky

@limepot that's some #Janky logo...

It is too expensive living here for shit to be this janky.

#BayArea
#Janky

You ok, Arlington DES? #curbramp #janky #wooden

#SoftwareEngineering ...

Remember: if it's janky, but it works, it's still #janky.

But it #works.

#software #engineering #hack #aphorism

Theory of Jank
(transplanted and extended from a #twitter version)

Every long term system, whether natural, human or technological, will be #janky ie. poorly specified & thrown together in ad hoc fashion. Simple systems are incomplete, and accrete #jank until they're (mostly) fit for purpose. If a simple system can't adapt, it will be replaced by one that can (eg. eaten by a bear 🐻).

Under this theory, systems (including ones composed of people) don't really learn or adapt. The current owners just hack new things onto/into/under/around/out of them until they're more-or-less ok, or it becomes less effort to just pull the whole thing down and start over.

Sometimes there'll be attempts to fight #jank, but these will ultimately be defeated by the balance between adding features vs. fighting entropy, and features almost always win, because the alternative is stagnation and death. If a system faces existential risk due to jank, the jank will be repaired, but only to the point that new features can be added, at which point the jank will continue.

External impressions can be that a system is smooth, efficient, resilient, streamlined and free of jank (a cockroach), but this only happens after a long period with several existential crises to beat the rough edges off the system, and generally locks the design in amber. Regardless of external appearances, the interior will always remain soft, weird and squishy.

About to miss our connecting flight because of #airline jankiness.

I'm so sick of this country's love affair with #janky ass #infrastructure.

@RL_Dane Sometimes, I'd like to see how I could do my Windows work in a Linux+DWM environment . . .

#janky

#ChicagoIndex email just arrived. Anyone can just click and take their survey! Like, say, CTU minions pushing #BrandonJohnson! Don't fall for the results, though I know many of you will. #Janky #Journalism #JournalismEthics #Polls #ChiMayor23

@geerlingguy and again like all @Raspberry_Pi "clones" or "competitors": #Radxa has a product that is - on paper - better spec'd in every aspect but they fail at basic #OS support...

And that's why I've not touched my #BananPi0M2 for ages yet would love to buy a 6-pack of #Pi0[W] v1.3:
Cuz they just work out of the box without #janky images and questionable #Kernel-hax!

https://youtu.be/CxD_0q8tAdc?t=803

Wow, the bare metal Home Assistant OS install process is janky as heck. I guess I have been spoiled for years.

Also, there's a certain level of comedy when you decide to break down and use a Ubuntu live image - grab an ISO off ubuntu and realize you already have 2 copies of the ISO when you see the (2) added to the download. 😅​

#homeassistant #install #janky

Silly? Maybe. Usable? Who knows.
Educational? Hopefully.
#vivaldi #antennaarray #rfspace #tsa800 #sdr #janky

I don't know how many of you are into watching Twitch, but, this dude is a lot of fun, plays #roguelikegames and #janky games (The Jank Tank, formerly "Bad Games Theater").
https://twitter.com/GilderTek/
https://gamer.baby/gildersneeze/

#twitch

#Janky
#ginger

I use the word "janky" and The Partner noticed and said they find it endearing, perhaps because it's unlike a lot of the other words I use in English.

But I wondered about the origins so I looked it up in the OED and it is FASCINATING. And even more interesting is the incredible diversity of sources in the corpus...

So here's a little thread to share more about the word #janky.