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Usability Disaster Story. A strange combination of usability oddities culminated in 95% of visitors to the Mono website downloading a two year old version by mistake.

Posted 25th January 2008 at 6:36 am

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My review of Claude's new Code Interpreter, released under a very confusing name - 9th September 2025
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