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It's not you. We're misanthropes - we hate everybody. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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In today's world, you shall not blame on programmers, this is the UX/UI job. Programmers simply implement what they have been asked to do.
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I feel your pain.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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This makes me think of the excellent book, The Design of Everyday Things. That book should be required reading for engineers of all stripes, but none so much as developers.
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I just read that book for the first time last year & it is fantastic. 
It's great too, because the author exposes the fact that a lot of these items make the user feel stupid, but it really is the engineer who is dumb.
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It was recommended to me by a retired software engineer. I own a copy because it bears re-reading and keeps me humble 
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The idiots designing the Windows UI need to read this book.
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Does copy/paste not work?
do they include QR codes you can scan on the phone?
And finally... you can store much of that in your password manager, so it is handy.
Of course, if you are dealing with unique systems each time, it gets harder. But then I pay THOSE bills with paper checks. And if they contain a barcode for only them... I damage it, so they feel my pain.
And I write QR Code Plz on the check and the bill. Since most companies are forced to MANUALLY process the payment and review why...
Ie, make THEIR problem a problem for them.
FWIW, Discover has a note to NEVER give me a card again b/c they pissed me off! LOL
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Show me how to copy from a paper bill I got in the mail to their web page on my computer and I'm golden.
I get a bill from a doctor or medical provider I'll hopefully never see again, so I don't set up an account.
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Yep, those people get paid with PAPER Checks, via Snail Mail!
Don't worry, eventually they will come around. STOP paying them online!
That will LEARN THEM!
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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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