Stories by slyall

Online subscriptions to The Economist cost twice as much in NZ as the US. Why?

The Uber Eats glitch that allowed ordering free food for a weekend in India

Chrome's new Permissions Request Chip UI. A replacement for permission pop-ups

We Almost Forgot About the Moon Trees, whose seeds travelled on Apollo 14

Primel: The “fun” “game” where you guess a 5 digit prime number.

Who Runs the Internet? Furries

Rodney Brooks: Predictions Scorecard, 2022 January 01

As a software developer, you may be called upon to perform some of these tasks

Colorado pay-disclosure law shows what Big Companies are paying

Scripting languages of the future

No time to die: An indepth analysis of James Bonds exposure to infectious agents

“I regret ever Open Sourcing Java – mostly since my daughter is now coding.”

Exactly 23 years ago Google signed its first datacenter contract

I built four eight-foot-long handwriting robots

A Review of “Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems”

Why Does the Sunlight Always Come from the North in Shaded Relief Maps?

Realtime Fastly logs with Grafana Loki for under $1 a day

Learning from incidents – Formula 1 car repaired on the grid with a 17m deadline

Babby's First AI Art - Put in some text, get some art

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