Samantha Gottlieb is a software engineer at the Guardian
April 2023
‘A naive and stupid idea’: how Rishi Sunak’s Future Fund spent millions on failed firms
The then chancellor’s loan scheme, set up as Covid hit, was supposed to keep dynamic startups going, but ended up giving taxpayer cash to long-established or lame duck businesses
May 2022
Engineering blog
What we learned at the International Journalism Festival
In April, the Guardian’s Investigations and Reporting team were lucky enough to attend the International Journalism Festival in Perugia. Here’s some stuff that we learned.
June 2021
Engineering blog
Old the front page! The story of 1821 Mode
To celebrate the Guardian’s 200th anniversary we turned the theguardian.com network front into its 19th-century ancestor. Here’s how we transformed the hack into reality using a selection of tools, some styling and creative thinking