https://robincarswell.com/categories/life-fun-and-art/Recent content in Life, Fun and Art on Robin CarswellHugo -- gohugo.ioen-gbTue, 14 Apr 2026 13:23:00 +0000https://robincarswell.com/posts/the-medium-was-never-the-message/Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:23:00 +0000https://robincarswell.com/posts/the-medium-was-never-the-message/A developer friend built a Markov chain to fake our chief's weekly emails. It worked.https://robincarswell.com/posts/how-to-un-fixate-an-algorithm/Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:53:00 +0000https://robincarswell.com/posts/how-to-un-fixate-an-algorithm/I accidentally bought sugar-free Heinz beans. Amazon has not forgotten.https://robincarswell.com/posts/mister-start-pants/Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:30:03 +0000https://robincarswell.com/posts/mister-start-pants/Just an update of my own starting out in the internet worldhttps://robincarswell.com/posts/a-stolen-reading-list/Fri, 26 Jul 2024 14:50:00 +0100https://robincarswell.com/posts/a-stolen-reading-list/<p>I stole this list from someone I respect on the socials. But since he doesn&rsquo;t know I respect him, I&rsquo;m sure it&rsquo;s fine to stick on the blog for future reference.</p>https://robincarswell.com/posts/news-and-newsreaders/Fri, 15 Dec 2023 14:16:00 +0100https://robincarswell.com/posts/news-and-newsreaders/<p>I&rsquo;ve been finding my niche news consumption to be really challenged recently &ndash; requiring a lot of manual management of links and feeds and it&rsquo;s becoming unwieldy. So I set out to evaluate and clean up my systems.</p>https://robincarswell.com/posts/podcasts-and-personal-development/Sat, 01 Jan 2022 13:00:00 +0100https://robincarswell.com/posts/podcasts-and-personal-development/<p>Here&rsquo;s a list of podcasts and resources for personal development in tech and startups.</p> <p>I&rsquo;m putting it here, so that I don&rsquo;t lose it in the giant email pile.</p>https://robincarswell.com/posts/reasons-why-youre-single/Mon, 04 Oct 2021 13:00:00 +0100https://robincarswell.com/posts/reasons-why-youre-single/<p>A <a href="https://syarifahrasul.medium.com/reasons-you-re-single-despite-being-a-hottie-f3e7d2ccf910">Medium post</a> showed up in my inbox. I was job hunting, and saw a strong parallel.</p> <p><em>Edit 1: Before reading my parallel, I&rsquo;ve been told it&rsquo;s probably a good idea to read the <a href="https://syarifahrasul.medium.com/reasons-you-re-single-despite-being-a-hottie-f3e7d2ccf910">original Medium article</a>.</em></p>https://robincarswell.com/posts/star-wars-pricing/Fri, 10 Sep 2021 18:00:00 +0100https://robincarswell.com/posts/star-wars-pricing/<blockquote> <p><em>Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: Let’s just say we’d like to avoid any Imperial entanglements.</em></p> <p><em>Han Solo: Well, that’s the real trick isn’t it? And it’s going to cost you something extra. (pauses) Ten thousand, all in advance.</em></p>https://robincarswell.com/posts/getting-started-with-hugo/Tue, 25 May 2021 22:00:00 +0100https://robincarswell.com/posts/getting-started-with-hugo/<p>I took the time to get <a href="https://gohugo.io">Hugo</a> set up to replace my long neglected personal blog. Here is the story.</p> <p>It was pretty straightforward and (aside from all the effort to port the content) only took a few hours following some (generally understandable) blog guidance.</p>https://robincarswell.com/posts/four-words-and-five-lines/Fri, 04 May 2018 10:13:00 +0100https://robincarswell.com/posts/four-words-and-five-lines/<p>The four words and five lines that matter in speech-writing. For those of you who give speeches, rather than just soapbox rants.</p>https://robincarswell.com/posts/a-rare-lol/Mon, 01 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://robincarswell.com/posts/a-rare-lol/Donald Rumsfeld wrote about building his first app at 83. Read the top comment.https://robincarswell.com/posts/the-right-tools/Tue, 09 Jun 2015 18:00:00 +0100https://robincarswell.com/posts/the-right-tools/<p>Just a round-up of the stationery I normally buy to help in professional contexts. It&rsquo;s useful to have it all in the same list.</p>