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Robin Allen
Personal blog · foon.uk · on HN as rogualprogramminggames
Robin Allen writes Foon, a personal blog at foon.uk about programming and games. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Fixing QuickLook (2023)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Robin Allen's site for a side-project earnings write-up, which one commenter calls a wonderful little article. Another comment is a joke about the site's CV PDF URL.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Games and stuff by Robin Allen
Most-linked posts?
- Fixing QuickLook (2023)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-12-20
- I still use Flash in 20222 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-21
- I learned something about GPUs today2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-13
What Hacker News says?
https://foon.uk/ Very bare-bones right now, just some Javascript (and, earlier, Flash) games I've made over the years. It's all static, which is nice to manage, but I do miss some of the interactive things (comments, polls, etc) I was able to easily knock up back when I had it all in PHP.
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Fixing QuickLook (2023) as a story · 240 points
HN discussionLet me make a completely unrelated and orthogonal observation that has nothing to do with this post. You see the url that is in the OP? This one. https://foon.uk/robin-allen-cv.pdf Copy that url, paste it into a new tab, but remove the f at the end. * BRIGHT LIGHTS AND SEIZURE WARNING* EDIT - Oh wait, the result is different depending on the browser. On one browser (Firefox), I get a creepy looking 404 error. On ano…
Comment linking /robin-allen-cv.pd
on “Ask HN: Why am I suddenly unemployable?”Submitted Learning Rust as a story · 137 points
HN discussionLocation: England Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, C++, JS, Django, TypeScript, Node.js, etc. CV: https://foon.uk/robin-allen-cv.pdf Email: r@foon.uk
Comment linking /robin-allen-cv.pdf
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2023)”Submitted Learning Rust, Part 5 as a story · 48 points
HN discussionDetails in this wonderful little article (which i think i read via HN but it came up in a search easily just now) https://foon.uk/how-flash-2022/
Comment linking /how-flash-2022/
on “Those making $500/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell”Submitted Fixing QuickLook as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted I still use Flash in 2022 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Europython Adventure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I learned something about GPUs today as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I learned something about GPUs today as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixing QuickLook as a story · 1 points
HN discussion