Robin Winslow

Robin Winslow @nottrobin

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

Location:
Bicester, UK
Joined:
Sep 18, 2018

Robin Winslow
articles - 38 total

"You have lost": Owen Jones' searing message to the BBC

Originally published on my blog. Yesterday, the courageous Gary Lineker was finally forced to resign...

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I'm a Bicester South "paper candidate" for the Green Party!

Originally published on my blog. Hi everyone 👋 If you live in "Bicester South" (Langford Village,...

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

Originally published on my blog. Live coding tests are extremely common when hiring software...

Learn More 0 0Dec 14 '23

My favourite leftist, economics and tech podcasts

Originally published on my blog. I listen to a lot of podcasts these days. I listen on my headphones...

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The degrading of big tech

Originally published on my blog. I just had a thought - or maybe it's more accurate to say that a...

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Inspecting the order data available to Shopify's Flow app

Originally published on my blog. This is quite specific, so I don't know if it will be useful to...

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How to build and customise ModernCV on Ubuntu 23.04

Originally published on my blog. ModernCV is a customisable LaTeX CV template for creating your...

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Victims and abusers

Originally published on my blog. The literature on supporting victims of domestic abuse is...

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Principles for platform engineering

Originally published on my blog. I've learned a lot about how to build a good engineering team in my...

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Tech fantasies and impostor syndrome

Originally published on my blog. I'd be curious how old-school engineers feel, but to me it seems...

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When is Kubernetes getting HTTP/3?

Originally published on my blog. The standard for HTTP/3, RFC 9114, was published as a proposed...

Learn More 1 1Feb 3 '23

GPT could centralise power online like nothing we've seen

Originally published on my blog. When I was doing my Computer Science degree in around 2005, I...

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Things I don't know yet

Originally published on my blog. I've been in the same job for a long time, and using, broadly, the...

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

Originally published on my blog. I really believe at this point that crypto is over. All of it....

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Is Elon Musk a white supremacist?

Originally published on my blog. I want to be very clear: I don't like calling people "racist",...

Learn More 0 1Sep 2 '22

Modern Monetary Theory

Originally published on my blog. This is written from a UK perspective, as I’m British. It's...

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"Nofollow" links are selfish and monopolistic

Originally published on my blog. Although other search engines are available, eveybody knows that...

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

Originally published on my blog. I just published a new Python package: tweet-counter (repo). If...

Learn More 5 0Aug 11 '22

New fancify-text Python module

Originally published on my blog. I just made a new Python module and CLI tool called fancify-text...

Learn More 3 0Aug 10 '22

New fancify-text Python module

I just made a new Python module and CLI tool called fancify-text for transforming text into fancy...

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Agile philosophy: A summary

Originally published at robinwinslow.uk/agile-philosophy Following are some guidelines about Agile...

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How to use unix linkchecker to thoroughly check any site

Originally posted at robinwinslow.uk/linkchecker If you want to a tool to crawl through your site...

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Writing for the web

Originally published on my blog. Some things to consider when writing content for the information...

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Why have a blog?

Originally published on my blog. I've had this blog now for about 8 years. Wow that sounds like a...

Learn More 9 0Aug 8 '22

Testing my "socialise" GitHub action

Originally published on my blog. I've spent the last week or so writing a bunch of scripts to...

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Regex basics

Originally published on my blog. In my team we run "masterclasses" every couple of weeks, where...

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Slow software development

Originally published on my blog. I've been trying to write this piece for a while. For some reason...

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Programming principles

Originally published on my blog. This is a list of principles that I respect for trying to write...

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Offices are expensive

Originally published on my blog. This is one post where that ubiquitous disclaimer is actually...

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I now support comments

Originally published on my blog. If you've read my blog, you'll have noticed that I never had a...

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