The Golden Hammer anti-pattern (formally and originally called the Law of the Instrument [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument]) is an over-reliance on a familiar tool. The gist of this anti-pattern is summed up as "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
I've only held three full-time software development jobs since graduating from college, including my current one. The second one was supposed to be my big breakthrough, my time to shine and become part of a well-oiled team of kickass programmers. That was not what happened. What actually happened was six
NOTE: I wrote a more-updated version of this post over here [https://exceptionnotfound.net/big-ball-of-mud-the-daily-software-anti-pattern/]. A big ball of mud [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_ball_of_mud] is a software system that lacks a perceivable architecture. The term appears to have been coined by computer scientists Brian Foote
The Inner-Platform Effect [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect] is the tendency of software engineers to design systems that need to be "customizable" to such an extent that: 1. The system becomes a poor imitation of the platform it was designed with AND 2. The system becomes so complex
Scott Hanselman has an post up called Bad UX and User Self-Blame - "I'm sorry, I'm not a computer person. [http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BadUXAndUserSelfBlameImSorryImNotAComputerPerson.aspx] " It's an excellent read, and in it he discusses the phenomenon of users blaming themselves when something goes wrong when using a computer.