The next train is cancelled as well. It wasn’t yet when I left the house and an empty Sprinter just passed through the station.
So, yeah: #IHaveNotes.
Wait, I have notes
I’ve gotten so many blog posts from analysing corporation-run websites (and so many more ideas) that I have made it into a series. I’ve named it, “I Have Notes“.
A series started in April 2024. I look at the websites of large companies and examine how well-implemented (or not) they are. I go deep and technical. Case studies that (I hope) will be educational for those of us in related fields.
Should I buy a share in Boots’ parent company?
I’ve been a bit obsessed with the website of UI Highstreet brand Boots. I have written four nerdy posts about boots.com theorising about why the website is so rubbish and slow.
In the order written:
I suspect that boots.com has vacant senior developer positions
I have a new theory about Boots’s car crash of a website.
I got […]
#Boots #CEO #CTO #IHaveNotes #shares #WalgreensBootsAlliance #Business
A possible reason boots.com is so slow
Just recently, I got curious about how slow boots.com is. I looked at the infrastructure but other than a mighty slow ping time on the domain, I saw little to explain it.
I looked again.
I wanted something to compare against. I used authorbuzz.co.uk which I have optimised for speed as hard as I can. In CDN finder you can see that boots.com is not doing […]
#Boots #CDN #HTML #IHaveNotes #optimise #waterfall #webDesignBasics #TheInternet
I have a new theory about Boots’s car crash of a website.
I’ve become somewhat obsessed with the boots.com website and its endlessly hilarious bad front end. My theory in my last post was a bad or underskilled manager. A bully or an idiot or both.
I still think there is some bad management shite going down at boots.com but I have started to wonder if the fault might not be further upon the chain […]
#badCode #bigCompanyFails #Boots #codeSmell #errors #HCLTechnologies #IHaveNotes #IBM #managers #muggles #WebSphereCommerce #wizards #CodingAndDevelopment
I suspect that boots.com has vacant senior developer positions
Nothing else explains what I just saw.
Yesterday evening, I decided to create an account with boots.com. I realised that I was paying more with a 15% “subscribe and save” discount on Amazon than I would if I just paid regular high street prices. Things took a turn for the silly and sad.
For my American readers: Boots is a high […]
#Boots #codeGore #HTML #IHaveNotes #poorManagement #WTF #TheInternet
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