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*stares with a grudge at bit.ly links*
That's a fun one. You copy by hand to send the link by SMS and instead of a newspaper article, the recipient gets anything from pornography to instructions about caring for an exotic plant.
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Better than pornography with an exotic plant. 
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Oh, don't worry, after you expend all of your energy typing that all in, we will force you to verify you are really you by retrieving your phone and typing another 6-digit code. 2FA is coming!!!! argh!!!!
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It's the UX designers, not the programmers! 
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I agree that you shouldn't have to deal with it, but you can hold CTRL and use your mouse scroll wheel, or CTRL and the +/= and -/_ keys (the ones on the top row of the keyboard, not the numeric keypad) to zoom in and out in some apps (including most web browsers that I know of). Windows also comes with a Magnifier tool to zoom in on apps that don't support a zoom function.
I say this because of experience. My eyes aren't what they used to be (which may be a result of years of staring at 4pt fonts on screen).....
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I use Ctrl+Mouse Wheel and Ctrl+0 all the time. My problem is when I get a bill in the mail from a provider and go to their website to "Pay My Bill" I have to enter an account number and an invoice number from the paper bill into their webpage. The numbers on the paper bill are hard to see and parse, and entering them on the website is pass fail. Get the wrong number of 0s in a long string of digits.
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... and if you don't enter it right, we'll clear the "whole screen" and make you start over.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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You should already know that most corporate apps/sites (and the programmers that write the code) are lorded over by people who have no UI design skills, and even worse, don't have the skill but think they do. Programmers are often self-admittedly either bad at UI design, or don't want to do it, and therefore don't bother with that kind of programming minutia.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Sorry. Out of scope.
Mr Kimble
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99% of the time it's not the programmers, it's "Management/Legal"
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my mini-spec: Base32 Encoding for IDs
essentially just [A-Z 0-9] but without '1', 'I', '0', or 'O'. so, ([A-H]|[J-N]|[P-Z]|[2-9])
case sensitivity: no
a uint64 can be represented in 13 chars .. a 128-bit GUID in 26 chars
everyone please ratify and adopt my proposal as a worldwide standard, asap
kthx
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Don’t forget about 2 Z and 5 S.
I think it is okay to keep 0-1, and convert O to 0, l to 1.
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I hate myself sometimes too since I've done it to myself 
A good human interface, for us pathetic humans  , requires a lot of thought and often, coding. It often starts with database design; no spaces in credit card numbers, no dashes in SS#s and phone number requirements for SMS that accept 18005551212 as the only format.
I love the "Enter your SS#" so you type in xxx-xx-xxxx and then get a popup saying only numbers are valid. Why didn't you set it to accept only numbers or drop the dashes, turkey? Forgot to do it, ran out of time, or maybe even some hate, lol.
It's getting a bit better as more tools have easier formatting settings available prior to running data validation on the good ole submit button.
But there remains a lack of data standardization in the industry and allowing il0O or even things like nw next to each other in some fonts is ugly. But often, it's the deck we're forced to play with.
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You nailed it. I've had a lot of fun writing parsers that accept as much variation in user input as possible and still maintain accuracy. The SS#, phone number are perfect examples. Time entry is another good one.
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Oh no, the dreaded "Time", lol. That is so true. Whenever possible, I'll load time into a combo if I need blocks like 15 minutes. On the desktop side, using visual studio date and time widgets helps muchly.
Last names are another tough one as they are usually critical lookup fields. O'Reilly, Oreilly, and O Reilly. And depending on your SQL, you need to watch the apostrophes.
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Anyone else notice different WORDLE solutions recently? I solve the puzzle directly from the NYTimes web page on my Windows laptop - my wife uses her iPhone and connects to NYTimes.
Apparently there were different puzzles the last couple days: FETUS vs SHINE 2 days ago, BUTCH then GECKO yesterday. (I had SHINE and GECKO).
I read that the NYT changed their puzzles so the answers wouldn't be a controversial word.
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Craig Robbins wrote: I read that the NYT changed their puzzles so the answers wouldn't be a controversial word.
How is Gecko controversial?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Unpaid advertising for Geico.
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Really? In my book it's a small lizard that can scale walls... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Geico is a US insurance company that uses a cartoon gecko in their advertising.
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Is it gecko that's controversial, or butch? I think butch can be a pejorative for a lesbian.
I think I did see a headline scroll by a couple days ago that mentioned fetus being removed from the word list. If so, we should probably be prepared for more. Just a sign of the current fear of offending someone, though I'm not sure why fetus would be offensive. Rumor has it we've all been one. 
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Correct - the replacement was GECKO. When I was a lad, "butch" referred to a very short haircut for boys (aka Crew Cut or Buzz Cut). That's the cut my parents chose for me.
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Me too (no #). That's the haircut I sported (cut by my mother) until I could afford to go to a barber shop and pay for my own. Nature has nearly returned me to this state. 
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Craig Robbins wrote: NYT changed their puzzles so the answers wouldn't be a controversial word.
So that leaves approximately 11 words that can be used.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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11!? Are you trying to offend people!?  
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