Verity Stob Biography

Verity Stob is the pseudonym of a British satirical columnist. Stob is an anonymous software developer, the author of humorous and satirical articles about information technology, particularly software development. Since 1988, she has written her "Verity Stob" column for .EXE magazine, Dr. Dobb's Journal, and currently[update] website The Register. Stob was described as "the author of the longest-running satirical column on computer programming" by her fellow columnist, Andrew Orlowski.