The RPG
New World: Grindy? Check. Repetitive? Check. Fun? We hate to say it... but check
Goddamn it, Jeff Bezos' lot can make a passable MMORPG after all
30 Oct 09:38 | 31
Columnists
Who, Me?
Config cockup leaves Reg reader reaching for the phone
Yet another thing that was really not better in the old days
11 Oct 08:32 | 71
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
Get real: Say what you like about your app but don't be surprised if I trollsplain
My next column will be written in spaaaaaace
08 Oct 10:14 | 57
Who, Me?
How to stop a content filter becoming a career-shortening network component
He's not just a Big Cheese. He's a very naughty boy
31 Aug 08:36 | 69
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
When everyone else is on vacation, it's time to whip out the tiny screwdrivers
Fixing laptops and solving UX conundra – all in a night’s work
27 Aug 11:24 | 151
On Call
Fix five days of server failure with this one weird trick
When you have eliminated the impossible...
27 Aug 07:47 | 153
Opinion
Horizon Workrooms promises a virtual future of teal despair
Only one company can make VR so bad it makes MS Teams look good – Facebook
23 Aug 09:26 | 38
Who, Me?
Hacking the computer with wirewraps and soldering irons: Just fix the issues as they come up, right?
The neverending battle betweeen youthful optimism and aged cyncism
23 Aug 08:25 | 103
On Call
So the data centre's 'getting a little hot' – at 57°C, that's quite the understatement
You know that thing that's supposed to put out the fire?
20 Aug 07:36 | 99
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Come fly with me. But first we need to find a boot device
An unexpected bork in the boarding area
11 Aug 10:04 | 18
Column
The web was done right the first time. An ancient 3D banana shows Microsoft does a lot right, too
It's wonderful that code written for Windows 3.1 still works well today
11 Aug 08:01 | 135
Who, Me?
How to keep your enterprise up to date by deploying the very latest malware
Salesmen suffer after suspicious surfing
19 Jul 07:30 | 71
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
The world is chaos but my Zoom background is control-freak perfection
Nudge that potted plant a little to the left aaaaand… action!
09 Jul 10:01 | 96
Bork!Bork!Bork!
If HAL did digital signage. I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that...
My God! It's full of Bork!
14 Jun 10:47 | 17
Who, Me?
Thanks, boss. The accidental creation of a lights-out data centre – what a fun surprise
At least nobody said 'watch this!'
07 Jun 07:31 | 116
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
How many remote controls do you really need? Answer: about a bowl-ful
I don’t care if the football’s on, we’ll have to watch whatever the TV wants us to
04 Jun 10:25 | 148
On Call
Today I shall explain how dual monitors work using the medium of interpretive dance
You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!
04 Jun 07:30 | 151
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Nobody expects the borkish bank-wisition: When I said I wanted some notes from the ATM, I never thought I'd see...
...the vast emptiness of Notepad
28 May 11:30 | 16
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Nature is healing: Shhh. It's a lesser spotted Pi Bork nesting behind the bushes at IKEA
Hålp, I äm stuck in emergency möde
25 May 11:44 | 25
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
Your private data has been nabbed: Please update your life as soon as possible while we deflect responsibility
Because our golf-obsessed boss has wandered off fondling his balls
14 May 08:30 | 86
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Who, Me?
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Column
A Code War has replaced The Cold War. And right now we’re losing it
There’s always someone to blame for bad infosec, but never a willingness to make meaningful change
10 Mar 08:02 | 85
Stob
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
Stob
Verity Stob is 'Disgusted of HG Wells': Time, gentlemen, please
Drinking the Kool-Aid outside the box
28 Jan 10:45 | 58
Stob
In Rust We Trust: Stob gets behind the latest language craze
My, what beautiful curly braces you have
27 Nov 09:04 | 117
Stob
The Pi who loved me: Licensed to SSL
Wherein Verity is troubled by a curious spam
16 Jul 08:05 | 29
Stob
Programmers' Question Time: Tiptoe through the tuples
Addressing the pro-horticulture/anti-nerdiculture bias
23 May 09:15 | 38
Stob
Everyday doings of a metropolitan techie: Stob's software diary
Chronicles of Delphi scribe podcasts, er, scribbles her musings
23 Jan 09:14 | 52
Stob
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
Stob
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
Stob
The harbingers of Doomwatch: Quist is quite the quasi-Quatermass
Bug behaviour in the wild
21 May 08:51 | 36
Stob
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
Devops
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
Stob
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
Stob
Seven pet h8s: Verity is sorely vexed
Where's pocket Bjarne Stroustrup when you need him?
20 Jan 10:03 | 57
STOB
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Breaking up is hard to do
26 Sep 08:59 | 75
Stob
Washed out summer? Fear ye not: DVDs for DevOps droogs
Virtual box sets for REAL IT pros
26 Jul 08:27 | 23
Stob
The Sons of Kahn and the Witch of Wookey
Verily, they did make support for the Internet of Things
20 May 08:40 | 48
Stob
Alice, Bob and Verity, too. Yeah, everybody's got a story, pal
Bus bore claims saucy crypto bragging rights
07 Mar 13:04 | 45
Stob
Learn you Func Prog on five minute quick!
I remember the Monoids; they came before the Cybermen
13 Jan 12:34 | 138
Stob
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
Stob
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
Stob
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
Stob
Eight EXCELLENT languages for the fondleslab-friendly Intranet of Thingies
Shifting software paradigms and so forth
20 Jan 10:01 | 54
Stob
Three Men in a Tardis
Verity has discovered a pre-Doctor Doctor Who episode
12 Nov 13:23 | 35
Stob
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
Stob
Verity's summer songs for programmers: Sing your pals to sleep()
When Irish IDEs are smiling, and so on
22 Jul 09:43 | 8
Stob
Bjarne Again: Hallelujah for C++
Plus: Now officially OK to admit you never used STL algorithms
17 Jun 12:05 | 102
Stob
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
Stob
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
Stob
Who ate all the Pis?
Verity Xmas wish comes true
29 Jan 11:44 | 84
Stob
8086 and All That. Revisited
Back when England was Top Nation in computing: reassembled from ancient parchments
22 Dec 11:01 | 27
Stob
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
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
Stob
Five go wild with the Administration Tools Pack
Nobody owns the Linuxes, Julian
23 Oct 10:00 | 17
Stob
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love IPv6
You make my heart go Ping
21 Aug 10:01 | 79
Stob
Welcome, friend, to Metroland
You Betjeman
09 Jul 08:33 | 30
Stob
Stuck in a dull conference? You need Verity's survival guide
Getting your own back on technical seminar speakers
14 May 09:19 | 39
Stob
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
Stob
Molesworth and the New Latin
'Why must we lurn about computa sciense sur? Why?'
27 Feb 13:19 | 81
Stob
The Sons of Khan and the Pascal Spring
How Embarcadero made Delphi as groovy as a Lumia phone. Um...
16 Jan 13:02 | 28
Stob
Riders of the Bearded Sage
Is that a dead parrot in your pocket, or are you just trying to please me?
21 Nov 10:11 | 11
Stob
Doctor Who and the Unsatisfactory Five Hole Tape Punch
Early world-dominating computers of the series
07 Nov 10:30 | 33
Stob
Verity's secret shame revealed
Password techniques and retrospective Daleks
19 Sep 09:41 | 71
Stob
Here lies
Here lies /^v.+b$/i
Which programming language to use on one's headstone?
22 Aug 12:20 | 201
Stob
Educating Verity the OU way
'The skin of my C++ custard remained unruffled'
18 Jul 10:00 | 46
Stob
Verity Stob and the super subjunction
Excuse me, Miss, but your pronouns need upgrading
01 Jun 10:28 | 80
Stob
No stranger to the moleskin trouser
Not around the water cooler
11 Apr 10:42 | 15
Stob
In defence of Comic Sans
Comic Sans Relief? I already gave
31 Jan 11:12 | 104
Stob
The Girl with the NSObject Class Reference tattoo
Verity tackles Swedish noir
10 Jan 11:30 | 62
Stob
I was timeboxed in a holistic scrum
More lithe than agile
29 Nov 11:30 | 21
Columnists
Verity Stob faces execution, Wikipedia-style
Citation needed
05 Oct 14:17 |
Stob
Diary of an Overflow Addict
Upvote, accept
05 Oct 11:11 | 23
Stob
Sons of Kahn: The Apocrypha
Delphi in a Discotheque
23 Aug 10:07 | 11
Stob
Lord Peter views the logfile
Top hole, Bunter
26 Jul 09:02 | 26
Stob
A Rumba with a Roomba
Verity puts her feet up
21 Jun 08:32 | 35
Stob
I Married a Monster from ISO 9000
We're getting harried in the morning
24 May 09:02 | 25
Stob
First among SQLs
COBOL for lawyers
20 Apr 11:03 | 33
Stob
Is it ta-ta for Flash?
Interview with a Flash Harriet
01 Mar 11:58 | 34
Stob
Verity Stob's App Store
Immature Content
18 Jan 11:32 | 12
Stob
A Deadlock Holiday
What to do now there's no Moore's Law?
10 Dec 11:26 | 34
Stob
Abigail's Windows 7 Party
Cry if you want to
14 Sep 10:31 | 52
Stob
Not now darling I'm twirping
Verity determines to enhance her social graph
24 Aug 10:17 | 30
Stob
Don't call me Ishmael
Choosing a name for your new PC
22 Jun 08:02 | 176
Stob
An unthinking programmer's guide to the new C++
Raising the standard
07 May 11:16 | 74
Stob
Come on, Sir Tim!
Celebrating Web 2(no point)0
17 Mar 09:35 | 23
Stob
Born Again Delphi
A word in CodeGear's shell-like
04 Feb 12:15 | 43
Columnists
Verity Stob's Big Fat Geek Yuletide Quiz of the Year Part 2
A treat for Quizlings everywhere
24 Dec 11:02 | 15
Stob
Replicating DNA
Digital watches and dolphins all round
10 Nov 13:02 | 10
Stob
Verity's further education
How the OU can restore its reputation
14 Oct 10:00 | 50
Software
Stob latest: IEEE flags dodgy paper
Cleaning up after peer review
19 Sep 14:15 | 20
Stob
Educating Verity
A breeze is riffling academia's pubic hair
13 Sep 17:51 | 60
Stob
How to be an instant Web me-2.0 developer
If you're so smart, how come you ain't rich?
07 Jul 09:02 | 32
Stob
A reading from the second book of Codh
Embarcadero takes on the Sons of Kahnanrado
26 May 08:02 | 11
Stob
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