Simon Willison’s Weblog

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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Highlights from my appearance on the Data Renegades podcast with CL Kao and Dori Wilson - 26th November 2025
Claude Opus 4.5, and why evaluating new LLMs is increasingly difficult - 24th November 2025
sqlite-utils 4.0a1 has several (minor) backwards incompatible changes - 24th November 2025

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