Pretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on this weirdly detailed website
- ID
- 33403
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 09 Oct 2026, 5:00 AM
- Fetched
- 09 Oct 2026, 5:32 AM
- Provider
- TechCrunch
- Category
- technology
- Original URL
- https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/08/pretend-youre-sitting-at-elizabeth-holmes-desk-on-this-weirdly-detailed-website/
- Source URL
- https://techcrunch.com/feed/
Summary
- Score
- 2.5
- Created
- 09 Oct 2026, 5:33 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- vibe_codersdevelopers
What happened
Bo Lau, described as an Extend engineer, built a website that simulates sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk in 2016, letting visitors open a MacBook Air running OS X El Capitan, scroll an iPhone with a home button, and run the Theranos Edison machine. The site uses over a thousand real emails, slides, texts, and documents from exhibits in United States v. Elizabeth Holmes, and it also promotes a watch party for Nathan Fielder’s documentary “You Can See Everything” and promotes Extend.
Why it matters
There is no tool, version, price, policy, or technical benchmark here that changes what most developers or founders should build. The only concrete builder-relevant detail is that public court exhibits were turned into an interactive desktop-style archive—useful as a content-marketing example, but the excerpt gives no implementation details or metrics to learn from.
Discussion angle
Could a simulated OS/device be a better interface for dense public archives than PDFs, and what would a builder need to measure to prove that beyond novelty?