CommitStrip nails one of the ways of getting into a bad project …
I remember reading an interview with Matt Mullenweg (though can’t seem to find a reference now), where he said that this sort of thing happened with Automattic. Â People were asking them for commercial support, but they didn’t want to do it, so they started with an insane amount of like $5,000 per month and all of a sudden found themselves with a queue of people outside.
And they were not alone, of course.
Jeff Atwood has an excellent blog post, about the increase in computing powers of the modern CPUs and GPUs and the affects of those on things around us. Â In particular – games such as chess and Go, and password cracking.
Every time you see a new video card release, don’t think “slightly nicer looking games” think “wow, hash cracking and AI just got 2× faster … again!”
Fascinating read!
Kottke blog links to this Twitter thread with hilariously bad phone number forms used on the web, which started with this one:
User experience and web design horror stories …
Location: THE SHIP INN BAR/RESTAURANT
I’ve linked to Unsplash before. Â It’s a collection of free high-resolution photos. Â This time however, I’m linking to their excellent 404 page design. Â Every time you hit a 404 page not found error, you see a short funny fail video. Â Every time the video is different. Â Funny!