Default Content

The biggest pet peeve I have in this world is when there’s no way to avoid the default. What I mean is, I want to be able to not have to deal with pre–loaded content. I don’t want training wheels for anything I do.

Tutorials are fine. Tutorials teach you how to do things with the thing your are doing the thing about or with or for or at. However, tutorials are going to teach you how to do the thing to/at/with/for the thing—not give you something you’ll just end up deleting. Or worse…

When I first installed WordPress on this site, I did something out of anger. Probably not the wisest thing to do (considering it wouldn’t do much anyway). But after installing WordPress on dozens of sites, there’s one thing that always annoys me, and there’s nothing I can do about it.

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Futile gesture at that point. I just wish they didn’t stick that in there. If there was one thing I would advise people who make software to do it would be this: give users the ability to take off the training wheels.