Enter "Drunk User Testing". Host a happy hour event and give some buzzed users some scenarios to test.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/an-open-bar-fo...

https://uxpamagazine.org/boozeability/

You can see one of these multiplane cameras on display at the Walt Disney Family Museum in the Presidio of San Francisco.

There is also a display of one in Orlando, I believe at Magic Kindgom.

It’s in Walt Disney Presents at Hollywood Studios. There is a bunch more Disney models and memorabilia inside as well. Feels like a hidden gem because it’s always pretty empty, plus there is even a character meet and greet with little wait.

Nathan Myhrvold said “Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.”

Psychonaut Josie Kins publishes YouTube videos with comparisons and visualizations of various psychedelic experiences: https://youtube.com/@josikinz

Arc is in maintenance mode as The Browser Company focuses on building a new browser: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/24/24279020/browser-company...

Lost all trust for a lot of users after they did this.

Zen browser would be an almost drop-in replacement for those that like Arc but it uses FF under the hood instead.

Yeah, I saw their YouTube video which was immensely annoying to watch. That’s why I was pretty pleased when I discovered Orion and I recently switched from Arc and MobileSafari to Orion as my defaults, but I’m using Arc as the Chromium browser I keep around for when that matters (which right now just means DRM streaming sites like Netflix and Crunchyroll), but Brave could fill this spot just as easily.

A minor ChatGPT feature I miss with Claude is temporary chats. I use ChatGPT for a lot of random one-off questions and don’t want them filling up my chat history with so many conversations.

> Failed projects spent a great portion on writing code.

Perhaps because the project requirements were not known or kept changing?

I'm reminded of the quip about "Why spend an hour in a meeting when you can spend weeks writing code to avoid it?"

In this case it was simply that successful projects got used, thus more bugs and maintenance issues were uncovered.

It's super easy to run a web service if it doesn't have any users :-)

What is "expect style"? Like Expect scripts in the Tcl scripting language?

yes

Marianne Bellotti’s “Burn It With Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones)” is another good book about working with legacy systems, though its focus is more about managing system evolution and modernization than specific code techniques.

Adding that to my list thank you very much.

Did no one at Google read this blog post on an iPhone before publishing?

That tracks.