Last Week in Plain English

By In Plain English

A weekly dose of tech news, a fascinating global news roundup, with a few unique stories mixed into the concoction.

Previous issues

Monkeypox Outbreak, Internet Reboot & Fighting Malaria w/ Gene Drives

#29 May 23, 2022

Global Climate Goal, Bioelectronic AI Hybrid & China's Giant Sinkhole

#28 May 16, 2022

Lab-Grown Black Hole, Coders' Language Barrier & Newest React Hook

#27 May 9, 2022

#26

May 3, 2022

The 10 Most Popular Programming Articles (April 2022) – Here are the 10 most popular articles on In Plain English. Need inspiration for your next article — l
#25

May 2, 2022

Frontend Interview Mistakes, Netflix's Crisis & Crawling in Data Science – This week we bring you a true story of how a $200k developer ended up unemployed - left penniless in
#24

Apr 25, 2022

Murderous AI, Funniest Reddit Thread, and the Never-Ending War – Hello and welcome to another edition of Last Week in Plain English. This week, we take a short detour
#23

Apr 11, 2022

No Code's Brutal Truth, Drop in YouTube Engagement & Web Accessibility – This week, we take a look at how a Facebook group has become the go-to for Ukrainians looking for a s
#22

Apr 4, 2022

An Interview with our Founder on Developer Experience, Russian Tech Workers' Exodus, and Hackers Exploiting Blockchain – While developers are considered to be highly valuable by our society, the experiences of developers t
#21

Mar 28, 2022

GIF Creator's Death, Billions-Costing Software Errors, and AI Hiring Bias – AI might be a bad choice if you want to root out inequality from the hiring process. While AI is effi
#20

Mar 21, 2022

Kremlin's Twitter Manipulation, the Mirror Universe, and America's Cybersecurity Failures – Hello and welcome to our 20th issue. In this week's edition, we take a look at how the Russian govern
#19

Mar 14, 2022

How to Get Fired Fast, AI Discrimination, and Ukraine-Russia Digital Conflict – This week, we begin by looking at five successful strategies for developers to increase their product
#18

Mar 7, 2022

Fact-checking Viral Tweets, React's Security Issues and the Anti-Crypto Celeb – React continues to be popular in the web development world for good reason, but there are security pi
#17

Feb 28, 2022

Russia's Cyber Threat, The End of Passwords, and React's Startup Disaster – Let us not mince words: war is hell.Our hearts and prayers go out to the people of Ukraine. This week
#16

Feb 21, 2022

Biggest Lie in IT, Big Tech vs. Innovation, and Digital Brain Replication – Everything is not well in the startup economy. Once upon a time, technology was the key to innovation
#15

Feb 14, 2022

100K/Year Developer Roadmap, New React 18 Hook, and Colony on Mars – AI and Machine Learning algorithms are slowly being integrated into our lives. Will AI eventually rep
#14

Feb 7, 2022

Fastest Programmer Firing, Pinterest's Newest Feature and Wordle's Overwhelming Sale – All of my friends have been playing Wordle. Have you given it a try yet? I can definitely tell you it
#13

Jan 31, 2022

Mysterious Space Object, Women's Safety App, and Coding Interview Walkthrough – Two weeks ago, we covered the story about the latest JavaScript open-source scandal which had to do w
#12

Jan 24, 2022

AI Content Generator, Elon Musk as a Programmer, and The Milky Way's Feeding Habits – A simple confession: I like to write. A few days ago, I came down with a bad case of writer’s block.
#11

Jan 17, 2022

Cops Chasing Pokémon, JavaScript Scandal, and Top Web3 Trends in 2022 – It’s been an exciting week with a lot of noteworthy events that we are excited to share with you. Gra
#10

Jan 10, 2022

Learning to Code in 2022, Colour Changing Cars, and the Fate of E3 – With the new year comes new year’s resolutions - getting back in shape, creating our bucket list of h

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