Robin Winslow

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

Bicester, UK Joined on Sep 18, 2018 robin@robinwinslow.co.uk https://robinwinslow.uk

Education

BSc & MSc from University of Nottingham

Work

Staff engineer at Canonical

Systems design, Lean web, Python, DevOps, Communication, Management

Emotional intelligence

My blog

Make the world a better place

36 posts published

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Robin Winslow

Dec 14 '23

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

8 min read

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Robin Winslow

Nov 4 '23

My favourite leftist, economics and tech podcasts

6 min read

Robin Winslow

Sep 28 '23

The degrading of big tech

4 min read

Robin Winslow

Sep 15 '23

Inspecting the order data available to Shopify's Flow app

8 min read

Robin Winslow

Aug 15 '23

How to build and customise ModernCV on Ubuntu 23.04

4 min read

Robin Winslow

Jun 15 '23

Victims and abusers

4 min read

Robin Winslow

Jun 8 '23

Principles for platform engineering

#devops #tooling

2 min read

Robin Winslow

Jun 7 '23

Tech fantasies and impostor syndrome

#discuss #programming #diversity #beginners

4 min read

Robin Winslow

Feb 3 '23

When is Kubernetes getting HTTP/3?

#kubernetes #nginx #http #servers

2 min read

Robin Winslow

Feb 2 '23

GPT could centralise power online like nothing we've seen

#openai #gpt3 #bigtech #machinelearning

8 min read

Robin Winslow

Jan 29 '23

Things I don't know yet

5 min read

Robin Winslow

Jan 10 '23

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

5 min read

Robin Winslow

Sep 2 '22

Is Elon Musk a white supremacist?

#news #devjournal

8 min read

Robin Winslow

Aug 26 '22

Modern Monetary Theory

6 min read

Robin Winslow

Aug 12 '22

"Nofollow" links are selfish and monopolistic

#devjournal #opensource #webdev #ethics

5 min read

Robin Winslow

Aug 11 '22

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

#showdev #python #cli #devjournal

1 min read

Robin Winslow

Aug 10 '22

New fancify-text Python module

#showdev #python #cli #devjournal

1 min read

Robin Winslow

Aug 10 '22

New fancify-text Python module

#showdev #python #cli #devjournal

1 min read

Robin Winslow

Aug 9 '22

Agile philosophy: A summary

#dev #canonical

2 min read

Robin Winslow

Aug 9 '22

How to use unix linkchecker to thoroughly check any site

#dev #backend #canonical

3 min read

Robin Winslow

Aug 8 '22

Why have a blog?

#discuss #devjournal #opensource

3 min read

Robin Winslow

Aug 8 '22

Writing for the web

#devjournal #webdev #tutorial #html

4 min read

Robin Winslow

Aug 8 '22

Testing my "socialise" GitHub action

#showdev #webdev #devjournal

1 min read

Robin Winslow

Aug 8 '22

Regex basics

#regex #python #javascript #perl

7 min read

Robin Winslow

Aug 8 '22

Slow software development

#discuss #webdev #programming #productivity

3 min read

Robin Winslow

Aug 8 '22

Programming principles

#programming #computerscience #webdev #codenewbie

3 min read

Robin Winslow

Aug 8 '22

Offices are expensive

#discuss #productivity #devjournal

3 min read

Robin Winslow

Aug 8 '22

Hate paywalls? 12ft.io is the answer

#devjournal

2 min read

Robin Winslow

Aug 8 '22

I now support comments

#showdev #devjournal #discuss

4 min read

Robin Winslow

Aug 8 '22

Freedom from the tyranny of metrics

#devjournal #webdev #datascience

2 min read

Robin Winslow

Aug 8 '22

Don't catch errors without a reason

#programming #beginners #javascript #python

4 min read

Robin Winslow

Aug 8 '22

Build an anchor

#productivity #management #devjournal #opensource

3 min read

Robin Winslow

Aug 8 '22

Blogging from my phone with GitJournal

#android #writing #productivity #devjournal

1 min read

Robin Winslow

Aug 8 '22

Publish early, publish often

#discuss #writing #career #opensource

3 min read

Robin Winslow

Aug 8 '22

Peter's parting principles

#discuss #leadership #webdev #productivity

4 min read

Robin Winslow

Aug 7 '22

Is the internet everything we hoped for?

#discuss #opensource #webdev #writing

4 min read

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