Nope
A list of things I don’t want/need in my life or the world, inspired by Jack Baty. You can find Jack's nope page on Baty.net.
I don’t want:
Ideals
- cookie banners
- browser notifications
- so many charging cables
- to pay to remove ads
- friction when I unsubscribe from your newsletter (especially if I didn't knowingly signup to it)
- AI features in every Web experience
- to engage with most people on LinkedIn
- more governments that ruin the lives of marginalised people
- genocidal nation states
- war crimes to go unpunished in any way
- lip service to socialism rather than direct action to combat fascism
- brussel sprouts at Christmas
- Tailwind
- an overreliance on JavaScript libraries and frameworks instead of HTML, CSS, and minimal "vanilla" JS
- the British royal family
- MrBeast
- Novak Djokovic to win more singles titles than Roger Federer
- business cases for "DEI"
Words
Please note I've censored some words because I want to avoid getting any unwanted traffic on the site. Hopefully you can work out what the words are.
- slop
- agentic
- Tr*mp or anything/anyone related to him and his administration
- Geoff Keighley
- peaceful protests
- Sora
- JK R*wling/Harry P*tter
- enshittification
- woke (because white people have ruined the original concept)
- anything related to the Labour party
- doomscrolling
- Paul Graham
- Tailwind
- React
- El*n Musk
- Gavin Newsom
- anything The Guardian prints
- Epst*in files
- healthy conversations
- vibe coding