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I'm Robin Scott, a Open Source Consultant and aCommerce software developer who, along with several other people, works for a business called Silicon Dales Ltd remotely, from a base in the North of the UK. I enjoy using my talents for programming to track and interpret sporting, political or retail data - and therefore you'll see me posting some content in these spaces in this, my personal website.

If you’re beginning your Tweet with “33/ …” you probably should have blogged it…

Updated on: September 18, 2025 | Originally posted on: September 12, 2017 by Robin Scott
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I was thinking about making this blog post in fewer than 140 characters in order to create some kind of pithy ironic platform abuse point, but no, I can’t be bothered. The luxury of not being curtailed by character limit is just too good to pass up.

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It will take as long as it takes

Updated on: September 18, 2025 | Originally posted on: November 23, 2017 by Robin Scott
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In a recent Slack chat with some fellow developers, there were certain tasks (like server moves encompassing upgrades to PHP 7, for example) which are not easy to specify in terms of how long the task may take.

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The GPL will be more important than Bitcoin (BTC) to the World’s future

Updated on: September 18, 2025 | Originally posted on: December 12, 2017 by Robin Scott
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A short one for today, but just to say, amidst all the hype, when all is said and done, it is my firm belief that …

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The ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Shrug Emoji – ?

Updated on: September 18, 2025 | Originally posted on: January 4, 2018 by Robin Scott
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Sometimes, in a developer Slack chat, you want to shrug. For those times, this, to copy and paste…

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That is all for today.

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Categories Tech Tutorials Tags Developer, devs, emoji, meh, shrugging 3 Comments

Giggs has the best Fire in the Booth

Updated on: September 18, 2025 | Originally posted on: February 19, 2018 by Robin Scott
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Giggs has the best Fire in the Booth. My opinion.

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Upgraded to PHP 7.2, without losing an eye

Updated on: September 18, 2025 | Originally posted on: March 6, 2018 by Robin Scott
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I upgraded this site to PHP 7.2 and nothing broke at all… which was nice.  

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Answered first question on Stack Exchange in nearly 5 years!

Updated on: September 18, 2025 | Originally posted on: March 17, 2018 by Robin Scott
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I just posted an answer onto Stack Exchange for the first time in nearly 5 years… you can find my WordPress Stack Exchange profile here, …

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Steve Blackmon promised me page one rankings

Updated on: September 18, 2025 | Originally posted on: March 27, 2018 by Robin Scott
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I got an email today which read:

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Russian Cyber Wars

Updated on: September 18, 2025 | Originally posted on: April 17, 2018 by Robin Scott
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It would appear that the US and UK are currently engaging some kind of a cyber war with Russia.

Or, I should say, the respective security agencies are doing this.

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Various Changes and speed enhancements

Updated on: September 18, 2025 | Originally posted on: May 18, 2018 by Robin Scott
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In case you were following along, a few more changes have gone in here, at this site, because here is where I have license to do things my way.

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