it may have been around for ages; the first time I've used it was after an iOS update

the UI Is: press q key = get a letter 'q' press q key, but instead of letting go, flick finger down ==> gets letter '1' instead

I don't see that at all. If I try to flick down when holding q, I get a most times -- which is the letter directly below q on the keyboard.

@seancorfield https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/ipad-flick-keyboard-ios-11/ <-- are we talking about the same UI? link is what I am describing

@qqq Ah, this is iPad-only?

@seancorfield: looks like I forgot to mention that, yeah, I'm referring to the ipad builtin keyboard

Have you taken a look at Google's G-board for iOS?

Lets you "draw" words across the keyboard (like Android, I believe?).

is this the 'swift key' ?

I installed the G-board on my iPhone a while back and I love it -- speeds up my typing a lot!

They call it "Glide Typing" apparently... https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gboard-a-new-keyboard-from-google/id1091700242?mt=8

Have any of you guys got rate-limited by using (slurp "url..")?

@mohamedhayibor rate limiting exists regardless of how you do a HTTP request (slurp, curl, a web browser etc)

@vemv Thanks for the info.