January 2026 – IT From Blighty

Hello World?

This is the simplest (most understated) demo of our software – The number of milliseconds past epoch January 1st, 1970 is: (ms) This simple (understated) demo shows how our RIP1 API uses client-side JavaScript in this browser (wherever you are in the world), to call server-side Java (in AWS Canada) … (continue reading)

By itfromblighty, 9 monthsJanuary 16, 2026 ago

Code

1.8 trillion+ lines of code

As many as 1.8 trillion lines of code were written in the 20 years since the start of this millennium, according to a conservative estimate in an article written on Medium.com (1) That’s 93 billion lines of code written per year, every year How many lines were written to manage … (continue reading)

By itfromblighty, 9 monthsJanuary 4, 2026 ago