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Robin Winslow

Dev and occasional blogger, searching for meaning and social justice.

Education

BSc & MSc from University of Nottingham

Work

Staff engineer at Canonical

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What's wrong with coding tests and how to do them right

What's wrong with coding tests and how to do them right

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My favourite leftist, economics and tech podcasts

My favourite leftist, economics and tech podcasts

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The degrading of big tech

The degrading of big tech

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Inspecting the order data available to Shopify's Flow app

Inspecting the order data available to Shopify's Flow app

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How to build and customise ModernCV on Ubuntu 23.04

How to build and customise ModernCV on Ubuntu 23.04

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Victims and abusers

Victims and abusers

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Principles for platform engineering

Principles for platform engineering

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Tech fantasies and impostor syndrome

Tech fantasies and impostor syndrome

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When is Kubernetes getting HTTP/3?

When is Kubernetes getting HTTP/3?

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GPT could centralise power online like nothing we've seen

GPT could centralise power online like nothing we've seen

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Things I don't know yet

Things I don't know yet

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Does crypto expose the emperor's clothes of the financial services industry?

Does crypto expose the emperor's clothes of the financial services industry?

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Is Elon Musk a white supremacist?

Is Elon Musk a white supremacist?

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Modern Monetary Theory

Modern Monetary Theory

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"Nofollow" links are selfish and monopolistic

"Nofollow" links are selfish and monopolistic

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Tweet-counter: A module to calculate the length of a tweet

Tweet-counter: A module to calculate the length of a tweet

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New fancify-text Python module

New fancify-text Python module

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New fancify-text Python module

New fancify-text Python module

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Agile philosophy: A summary

Agile philosophy: A summary

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How to use unix linkchecker to thoroughly check any site

How to use unix linkchecker to thoroughly check any site

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Why have a blog?

Why have a blog?

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Writing for the web

Writing for the web

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Testing my "socialise" GitHub action

Testing my "socialise" GitHub action

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Regex basics

Regex basics

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Slow software development

Slow software development

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Programming principles

Programming principles

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Offices are expensive

Offices are expensive

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I now support comments

I now support comments

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Hate paywalls? 12ft.io is the answer

Hate paywalls? 12ft.io is the answer

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Don't catch errors without a reason

Don't catch errors without a reason

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Freedom from the tyranny of metrics

Freedom from the tyranny of metrics

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Build an anchor

Build an anchor

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Blogging from my phone with GitJournal

Blogging from my phone with GitJournal

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Publish early, publish often

Publish early, publish often

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Peter's parting principles

Peter's parting principles

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Is the internet everything we hoped for?

Is the internet everything we hoped for?

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