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Robb Owen - My writing

My collected writing on topics ranging from coding and the web industry, to linguistics and natural language processing.

  • By Robb Owen
  • Based in United Kingdom
  • Roughly four posts per year
  • First post on

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Posts per month
Month starting Posts
Dec 2020 1
Jan 2021 0
Feb 2021 0
Mar 2021 0
Apr 2021 0
May 2021 0
Jun 2021 0
Jul 2021 1
Aug 2021 0
Sep 2021 0
Oct 2021 0
Nov 2021 0
Dec 2021 0
Jan 2022 0
Feb 2022 0
Mar 2022 0
Apr 2022 0
May 2022 0
Jun 2022 0
Jul 2022 2
Aug 2022 0
Sep 2022 0
Oct 2022 0
Nov 2022 1
Dec 2022 1
Jan 2023 1
Feb 2023 0
Mar 2023 0
Apr 2023 1
May 2023 0
Jun 2023 0
Jul 2023 0
Aug 2023 0
Sep 2023 0
Oct 2023 0
Nov 2023 1
Dec 2023 0

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

HTML is like a camera
Recently, as I started getting back into photography I read something that stuck with me (though sadly the source didn't). To paraphrase: If you were able to take a great photo on a camera from …
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Legacy code
Before he retired, my dad was an electrical and diagnostic engineer. In short, he dedicated most of his adult life to designing and building lasers and laser equipment – everything from laser-tag through to guidance …
On , 1,601 words
Hand-thrown frontends
I've been thinking about my approach to frontend a lot recently and an analogy that comes up pretty consistently when talking about building user interfaces is that the frontend development process should be like efficiently …
On , 675 words