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Robin Wilson

Personal blog · blog.rtwilson.comprogrammingsciencedata

Robin Wilson writes Robin's Blog, a personal blog at blog.rtwilson.com about programming, science and data. Since 2010, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Hacking the Worcester Wave Thermostat in Python”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-10, and you can follow it by feed.

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24mentions?
13HN people?
2010–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Robin Wilson's blog for its writing on software sustainability and reproducible research, especially in remote sensing. One commenter points to it as a source on that subject in the broader sense.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Hacking the Worcester Wave Thermostat in Python
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-05

What Hacker News says?

  1. tudorw · 2016-01-20
    Here's a quick slideshow on Software Sustainability and Reproducible Research in Remote Sensing from Robin Wilson, https://speakerdeck.com/robintw/software-sustainability-and-... he also writes a blog that often discusses the subject in the broader sense http://blog.rtwilson.com/in-praise-of-projecttemplate-for-re...

    Comment linking /in-praise-of-projecttemplate-for-reproducible-research/

    on “Announcing Wolfram Programming Lab”
  2. ColinWright · 2015-12-23

    Submitted 'New' Python modules of 2015 as a story · 591 points

    HN discussion
  3. robintw147 · 2011-03-19

    Submitted Want to write some code? Get away from your computer as a story · 129 points

    HN discussion
  4. ascorbic · 2016-03-18

    Submitted Hacking the Worcester Wave Thermostat in Python as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  5. ingve · 2015-12-01

    Submitted Scientific software metrics with Depsy as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  6. tshepang · 2014-09-20

    Submitted Review: High Performance Python as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. robintw147 · 2011-04-14

    Submitted Programming - Pointers - Parallel Programming as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. rbanffy · 2019-10-29

    Submitted Five New-Ish Python Things – Part 1 « Robin's Blog as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. pbowyer · 2015-08-31

    Submitted Introducing recipy: effortless provenance tracking with Python as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. robintw · 2013-08-30

    Submitted Encouraging citation of software: introducing the CITATION file as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. robintw147 · 2011-05-11

    Submitted The best debugger is a good compiler as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. robintw147 · 2011-04-02

    Submitted Git helps me get round to using source control as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. robintw147 · 2011-01-22

    Submitted Git + DTerm = Great source control in OS X as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. surprisetalk · 2026-04-02

    Submitted How to decorate a simple but effective child's birthday cake as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. luord · 2020-11-19

    Submitted Pint and SQLAlchemy = Unit consistency and enforcement in your database as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. rbanffy · 2019-09-24

    Submitted Matplotlib titles have configurable locations – and you can have more than one as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. PuffinBlue · 2018-04-17

    Submitted Roadside leafiness from space as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. perlgeek · 2016-06-15

    Submitted Conda revisions: letting you rollback to a previous version of your environment as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. robintw · 2016-02-05

    Submitted Hacking the Worcester Wave Wifi Thermostat in Python as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. robintw · 2014-09-20

    Submitted High Performance Python book – review as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. robintw147 · 2011-07-15

    Submitted The new IPython is Awesome as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. robintw147 · 2011-05-24

    Submitted The piles of crap that come with a new Toshiba laptop... as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. robintw147 · 2011-05-20

    Submitted Parallel Programming is Pointers++ as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. robintw · 2010-06-17

    Submitted Art: in other words...? A discussion of art vs. science as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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