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Stob's vital message to Britain's IT nation: And no, it's not about that
It's actually another Huawei down the 5G antennas
01 Apr 09:00 | 28
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Verity Stob is 'Disgusted of HG Wells': Time, gentlemen, please
Drinking the Kool-Aid outside the box
28 Jan 10:45 | 59
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In Rust We Trust: Stob gets behind the latest language craze
My, what beautiful curly braces you have
27 Nov 09:04 | 114
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The Pi who loved me: Licensed to SSL
Wherein Verity is troubled by a curious spam
16 Jul 08:05 | 29
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Programmers' Question Time: Tiptoe through the tuples
Addressing the pro-horticulture/anti-nerdiculture bias
23 May 09:15 | 38
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Everyday doings of a metropolitan techie: Stob's software diary
Chronicles of Delphi scribe podcasts, er, scribbles her musings
23 Jan 09:14 | 52
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That Old Time 2018 IT songbook: Verity, Verity - give us your lyrics, do! We're half crazy, all for the love of you
It's sing-along-a-Stob time
14 Nov 10:18 | 20
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30-up: You know what? Those really weren't the days
Happy anniversary, readers, from the original Git it girl
20 Sep 09:24 | 143
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The harbingers of Doomwatch: Quist is quite the quasi-Quatermass
Bug behaviour in the wild
21 May 08:51 | 36
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There are 10 types of people in the world, but there is only one Melvyn
Verity puts a Bragg in your shell-like
28 Mar 08:05 | 42
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2001: A Stob Odyssey
Open the chuffing pod bay doors yourself, Dave
28 Nov 10:57 | 22
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Programming in the Middle Ages: Docker makes a lovely pair of trousers
Lest we forget
19 Sep 09:14 | 56
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Miss Misery on hacking Mr Robot and the Missing Sense of Fun
He's both the sharpest tool AND two spanners short
28 Mar 09:00 | 88
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Seven pet h8s: Verity is sorely vexed
Where's pocket Bjarne Stroustrup when you need him?
20 Jan 10:03 | 57
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Brexit at the next junction: Verity's guide to key post-vote skills
Breaking up is hard to do
26 Sep 08:59 | 75
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Washed out summer? Fear ye not: DVDs for DevOps droogs
Virtual box sets for REAL IT pros
26 Jul 08:27 | 23
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The Sons of Kahn and the Witch of Wookey
Verily, they did make support for the Internet of Things
20 May 08:40 | 48
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Alice, Bob and Verity, too. Yeah, everybody's got a story, pal
Bus bore claims saucy crypto bragging rights
07 Mar 13:04 | 45
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Learn you Func Prog on five minute quick!
I remember the Monoids; they came before the Cybermen
13 Jan 12:34 | 138
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A Bombe Called Christopher, or A Very Poor Imitation
Verity publishes the real script of Turing biopic The Imitation Game
26 Jan 13:08 | 59
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V. R. R. Stob's magnificent saga A Game Of Dog-and-Bones
GUARANTEED no elves and hardly any violence. Or incest
18 Dec 09:00 | 26
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Today's bugs have BRANDS? Be still my bleeding heart [logo]
Code-slinger Verity reviews the rash of groovy-named open-source security vulns
01 May 07:02 | 108
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Eight EXCELLENT languages for the fondleslab-friendly Intranet of Thingies
Shifting software paradigms and so forth
20 Jan 10:01 | 54
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Three Men in a Tardis
Verity has discovered a pre-Doctor Doctor Who episode
12 Nov 13:23 | 35
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Down with Unicode! Why 16 bits per character is a right pain in the ASCII
We were sold a lie. It's time to go back to 8-bit
04 Oct 09:03 | 198
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Verity's summer songs for programmers: Sing your pals to sleep()
When Irish IDEs are smiling, and so on
22 Jul 09:43 | 8
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Bjarne Again: Hallelujah for C++
Plus: Now officially OK to admit you never used STL algorithms
17 Jun 12:05 | 102
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In space, no one can hear your laptop Blue Screen
Way above the Cloud, there's a bring-your-own-disaster brewing on the ISS
07 May 06:03 | 14
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Six things a text editor must do - or it's a one-way trip to the trash
Does your source code editor pass the Verity test?
11 Mar 09:02 | 229
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Who ate all the Pis?
Verity Xmas wish comes true
29 Jan 11:44 | 84
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8086 and All That. Revisited
Back when England was Top Nation in computing: reassembled from ancient parchments
22 Dec 11:01 | 27
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The Sons of Kahn and the assembly language of the internet
C# hath become a lonely path. And the Beast hath shut its gates against us
11 Dec 10:00 | 49
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Google defames Reg columnist Verity Stob
Auto-trawled headshot too AWFUL to contemplate
06 Dec 15:31 | 35
Stob Special
Stob on Quatermass: Was this British TV's finest sci-fi hour?
Let's shake the dead fly out of the DVD
08 Nov 11:00 | 59
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Five go wild with the Administration Tools Pack
Nobody owns the Linuxes, Julian
23 Oct 10:00 | 17
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love IPv6
You make my heart go Ping
21 Aug 10:01 | 79
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Welcome, friend, to Metroland
You Betjeman
09 Jul 08:33 | 30
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Stuck in a dull conference? You need Verity's survival guide
Getting your own back on technical seminar speakers
14 May 09:19 | 39
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Hold on, Booker prize judges - Stob's penned a steampunk hit
Everyone has a novel in them. Sadly this includes Reg columnist Verity
17 Apr 07:33 | 40
