There’s a developer in Lagos, let’s call him Tobi, who used to spend the first three hours of every workday writing the same kind of code. CRUD functions, API boilerplate, unit test scaffolding.

Theoretical ideas have a real-life impact,” said Michael Oser Rabin in a 2009 interview, 1 and he spent nearly seven decades ...

Tyrone Marhguy, the young Rastafarian who was nearly denied admission to Achimota School over his dreadlocks, has ...