Simon Willison’s Weblog

25th January 2008 - Link Blog

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

Recent articles

The new GPT-5.6 family: Luna, Terra, Sol - 9th July 2026
sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations - 7th July 2026
sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25) - 5th July 2026

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 25th January 2008.

miguel-de-icaza 9 mono 8 usability 98

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe