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The Design of Sony’s ‘Affected Titles’ Page Is Indicative of How Little They Give a Damn

The page Sony published listing the 551 movies they deleted from the libraries of PlayStation customers is a single-column table, a layout easily generated from a simple regex find-and-replace[1]. They couldn’t even spend five minutes in an LLM generating something nicer[2]. They just didn’t give a damn. I’m surprised they bothered making a table and giving it “bumblebee”[3] styling.

(Sony, you’re welcome to use that page. Just credit JAG’s Workshop and Anthropic’s Claude.)


  1. Seriously: Find: ^(.+)$ Replace: <tr><td width="483" height="20">\1</td></tr> ↩︎

  2. It’s responsive and supports light and dark modes. ↩︎

  3. This is what I recall us calling alternate row coloring inside Apple in the early 2000s. I think it might have been an Apple Developer Connection (now WWDR)-specific name, but could have been Apple-wide. Most designers probably call it “zebra striping” today. ↩︎

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