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.

Hm, well, actually: Maybe I should start using #IHaveNotes as a euphemistic hashtag for “I yelled at the screen but don’t want to openly rant on the Mastodons”?

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“.

#IHaveNotes #WebTechnology

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