This made me chuckle. Part of software development in 2025 is covertly getting high signal feedback from (watching) actual users of the product, and ignoring high noise feedback from "stakeholders" who often don't (know how to) use the product.
I don't know where they keep finding these product managers, but they must have one hell of a smile and handshake to get hired and then never learn the product or ever contribute anything of value.
I do actually really like this, but there it is a little ironic that the website advocates for straightforward, unpretentious UI (e.g., one should make a button "look like button" not, say, a kitschy bird), but this idea is expressed not through plain-spoken words, but a kitschy caveperson gimmick.
I think this kind of undermines the point, and goes a long way to showing that sometimes the best way to communicate actually is in a way that is unique.
Grug Dev is my hero, the pinnacle of the bell curve meme.
Grug design reads like a shallow copy, not written by an actual designer but by a developer with a passing, and frustrated, experience with design. It also lacks references to shiny rocks and complexity daemon, and *shaman*. Because the design system shaman reliably summons the daemons.
That's why it is best to access sites like HN through the RSS feed since that takes this power out of the hands of those moderators and puts it back where it belongs, in the hands of the observer/reader/user.
Grug like dense UI, but grug also remember what web look like before people who knew newspapers used it.
Newspapers look like they do for a reason. Grug eye tired sweeping too far left-right.
Grug split difference, leave room for user to use tiling window manager to make article take up half screen while other half is HN box to talk about article.
I mean, I have multiple paper rolls in my house that are multiple meters in length. I think you have some too. Paper can be made quite long, it's obviously possible. Ever heard of scrolls? The ergonomics are the reason, not the physical limits of paper.
Seems like they just pasted the original grug article into gpt and said rewrite this but about design.