Stob treks back across the decades to review the greatest TV sci-fi in the light of recent experience
Stob To boldly zoom
Bootnotes17 Jun 2021 | 53
Verity Stob is the pseudonym of a software developer based in London. Since 1988, she has written her "Verity Stob" column for .EXE magazine, Dr. Dobb's Journal and, now, The Register.
Stob's vital message to Britain's IT nation: And no, it's not about that
Stob It's actually another Huawei down the 5G antennas
Devops01 Apr 2020 | 28
Verity Stob is 'Disgusted of HG Wells': Time, gentlemen, please
Stob Drinking the Kool-Aid outside the box
Columnists28 Jan 2020 | 58
In Rust We Trust: Stob gets behind the latest language craze
Stob My, what beautiful curly braces you have
Devops27 Nov 2019 | 117
The Wun Show: Douglas Crockford has been sniffing JavaScript's bad parts again
Stob The Good, the Bad, and the Wunderful
Software25 Sep 2019 | 38
The Pi who loved me: Licensed to SSL
Stob Wherein Verity is troubled by a curious spam
Devops16 Jul 2019 | 29
Programmers' Question Time: Tiptoe through the tuples
Stob Addressing the pro-horticulture/anti-nerdiculture bias
Devops23 May 2019 | 38
Everyday doings of a metropolitan techie: Stob's software diary
Stob Chronicles of Delphi scribe podcasts, er, scribbles her musings
Columnists23 Jan 2019 | 52
That Old Time 2018 IT songbook: Verity, Verity - give us your lyrics, do! We're half crazy, all for the love of you
Stob It's sing-along-a-Stob time
Devops14 Nov 2018 | 20
30-up: You know what? Those really weren't the days
Stob Happy anniversary, readers, from the original Git it girl
Devops20 Sep 2018 | 143
The harbingers of Doomwatch: Quist is quite the quasi-Quatermass
Stob Bug behaviour in the wild
Columnists21 May 2018 | 36
There are 10 types of people in the world, but there is only one Melvyn
Stob Verity puts a Bragg in your shell-like
Columnists28 Mar 2018 | 42
2001: A Stob Odyssey
Open the chuffing pod bay doors yourself, Dave
Devops28 Nov 2017 | 22
Programming in the Middle Ages: Docker makes a lovely pair of trousers
Stob Lest we forget
Devops19 Sep 2017 | 56
Confessions of an ebook eater
Stob In which Chronicles of Delphi scribe Verity gives praise to post-book world
Devops26 Jul 2017 | 76
At the feet of the Great Monad, or, How the functional programming craze plays out
Stob Dost thou know the Seven Immutable Laws of FP?
Devops31 May 2017 | 61
Miss Misery on hacking Mr Robot and the Missing Sense of Fun
Stob He's both the sharpest tool AND two spanners short
Columnists28 Mar 2017 | 88
Seven pet h8s: Verity is sorely vexed
Stob Where's pocket Bjarne Stroustrup when you need him?
Columnists20 Jan 2017 | 57
Brexit at the next junction: Verity's guide to key post-vote skills
STOB Breaking up is hard to do
Devops26 Sep 2016 | 75
Washed out summer? Fear ye not: DVDs for DevOps droogs
Stob Virtual box sets for REAL IT pros
Columnists26 Jul 2016 | 23
The Sons of Kahn and the Witch of Wookey
Stob Verily, they did make support for the Internet of Things
Columnists20 May 2016 | 48
Alice, Bob and Verity, too. Yeah, everybody's got a story, pal
Stob Bus bore claims saucy crypto bragging rights
Columnists07 Mar 2016 | 45
Learn you Func Prog on five minute quick!
Stob I remember the Monoids; they came before the Cybermen
Devops13 Jan 2016 | 138
Health & Safety is the responsibility of Connor's long-suffering girlfriend
Stob Little Hitlers gonna Hitle
Software16 Mar 2015 | 50
A Bombe Called Christopher, or A Very Poor Imitation
Stob Verity publishes the real script of Turing biopic The Imitation Game
Columnists26 Jan 2015 | 59
V. R. R. Stob's magnificent saga A Game Of Dog-and-Bones
Stob GUARANTEED no elves and hardly any violence. Or incest
Columnists18 Dec 2014 | 26
Today's bugs have BRANDS? Be still my bleeding heart [logo]
Stob Code-slinger Verity reviews the rash of groovy-named open-source security vulns
Columnists01 May 2014 | 108
Eight EXCELLENT languages for the fondleslab-friendly Intranet of Thingies
Stob Shifting software paradigms and so forth
Columnists20 Jan 2014 | 54
Three Men in a Tardis
Stob Verity has discovered a pre-Doctor Doctor Who episode
Columnists12 Nov 2013 | 35
Down with Unicode! Why 16 bits per character is a right pain in the ASCII
Stob We were sold a lie. It's time to go back to 8-bit
Columnists04 Oct 2013 | 198
Verity's summer songs for programmers: Sing your pals to sleep()
Stob When Irish IDEs are smiling, and so on
Devops22 Jul 2013 | 8
Bjarne Again: Hallelujah for C++
Stob Plus: Now officially OK to admit you never used STL algorithms
Columnists17 Jun 2013 | 102
In space, no one can hear your laptop Blue Screen
Stob Way above the Cloud, there's a bring-your-own-disaster brewing on the ISS
OSes07 May 2013 | 14
Six things a text editor must do - or it's a one-way trip to the trash
Stob Does your source code editor pass the Verity test?
Columnists11 Mar 2013 | 229
Who ate all the Pis?
Stob Verity Xmas wish comes true
Columnists29 Jan 2013 | 84
8086 and All That. Revisited
Stob Back when England was Top Nation in computing: reassembled from ancient parchments
Columnists22 Dec 2012 | 27
The Sons of Kahn and the assembly language of the internet
Stob C# hath become a lonely path. And the Beast hath shut its gates against us
Columnists11 Dec 2012 | 49
Stob on Quatermass: Was this British TV's finest sci-fi hour?
Stob Special Let's shake the dead fly out of the DVD
Columnists08 Nov 2012 | 59
Five go wild with the Administration Tools Pack
Stob Nobody owns the Linuxes, Julian
Columnists23 Oct 2012 | 17
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love IPv6
Stob You make my heart go Ping
Columnists21 Aug 2012 | 79
Welcome, friend, to Metroland
Stob You Betjeman
Columnists09 Jul 2012 | 30
Stuck in a dull conference? You need Verity's survival guide
Stob Getting your own back on technical seminar speakers
Columnists14 May 2012 | 39
Hold on, Booker prize judges - Stob's penned a steampunk hit
Stob Everyone has a novel in them. Sadly this includes Reg columnist Verity
Columnists17 Apr 2012 | 40
Molesworth and the New Latin
Stob 'Why must we lurn about computa sciense sur? Why?'
Columnists27 Feb 2012 | 81
The Sons of Khan and the Pascal Spring
Stob How Embarcadero made Delphi as groovy as a Lumia phone. Um...
Columnists16 Jan 2012 | 28
Riders of the Bearded Sage
Stob Is that a dead parrot in your pocket, or are you just trying to please me?
Columnists21 Nov 2011 | 11
Doctor Who and the Unsatisfactory Five Hole Tape Punch
Stob Early world-dominating computers of the series
Columnists07 Nov 2011 | 33
Verity's secret shame revealed
Stob Password techniques and retrospective Daleks
Columnists19 Sep 2011 | 71
Here lies /^v.+b$/i
Stob Which programming language to use on one's headstone?
Software22 Aug 2011 | 201
Educating Verity the OU way
Stob 'The skin of my C++ custard remained unruffled'
Columnists18 Jul 2011 | 46
Verity Stob and the super subjunction
Stob Excuse me, Miss, but your pronouns need upgrading
Columnists01 Jun 2011 | 80
No stranger to the moleskin trouser
Stob Not around the water cooler
Columnists11 Apr 2011 | 15
In defence of Comic Sans
Stob Comic Sans Relief? I already gave
Columnists31 Jan 2011 | 104
The Girl with the NSObject Class Reference tattoo
Stob Verity tackles Swedish noir
Columnists10 Jan 2011 | 62
I was timeboxed in a holistic scrum
Stob More lithe than agile
Columnists29 Nov 2010 | 21
Diary of an Overflow Addict
Stob Upvote, accept
Columnists05 Oct 2010 | 23
Sons of Kahn: The Apocrypha
Stob Delphi in a Discotheque
Columnists23 Aug 2010 | 11
Lord Peter views the logfile
Stob Top hole, Bunter
Columnists26 Jul 2010 | 26
A Rumba with a Roomba
Stob Verity puts her feet up
Columnists21 Jun 2010 | 35
I Married a Monster from ISO 9000
Stob We're getting harried in the morning
Columnists24 May 2010 | 25
