Airport duty free shops are very odd. You're there walking along the airport corridors, after going through security and all of a sudden it's like you've just walked in the front door of Macy's. So what is a duty free exactly? Why do so many airports have them? Why do they sell somewhat odd items to peddle at travellers, and are they actually any cheaper?
25 Jun 2026
Email
Email was built to send messages, and not in a particularly sophisticated way, but it quietly became a very important piece of Internet infrastructure. It’s the lowest-common-denominator of online communication, but it’s also even more significantly the defacto standard for digital identity on the web. So how did a system designed to simply deliver messages evolve into the Internet’s universal form of digital verification?
31 Jul 2025
The QWERTY Keyboard
When I was younger, my Grandmother asked me to teach her to use a computer. We sat down in front of it, and before I even had a chance to press the power button, she asked “Why are the letters on the keyboard laid out in such a weird way”. The keyboard that we use to interact with them is called QWERTY.
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