"Did you know the site is down?": 20 Years of Mistakes, Failures, and Fuck-Ups
summary
HTML bug is a missing character that makes a submit button dead, an Angular debugging rabbit hole that ends with forgot a closing tag; a marketing script sends “Opera” to tens of thousands and spikes sales when it should target “Oprah”; a domain-renewal job retries three times using the company card with an expired expiration date, charging $15 against a $3 margin and bleeding money from a six-figure-a-month customer; a $35,000 VRML marketplace gets built and never ships.
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chapters (27)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:20What did I do wrong
- 1:58Anger Allure
- 2:21Fixing Bugs
- 3:14Microsoft Reach
- 3:31Goddard College
- 4:35Macbeth
- 5:27Level 9 Design
- 6:20VRML
- 7:06Apple Pre Jobs
- 7:47My Career Took Off
- 8:16UNIX Desktop
- 8:44Amazon
- 9:43Email
- 10:00Direct Marketing
- 10:49PlayDoh
- 12:34Dimitri
- 15:31Manifesto
- 15:44Dollhouse
- 16:06Bad Leadership
- 18:08The fatal flaw
- 19:31Whos to blame
- 19:54The math
- 20:30Ice names
- 21:25Ideology
- 23:04Bugs and Errors
- 24:27Conclusion
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