Stories by RobinL

Putting Scaffolding Around Vibe Coding to Build More Complex Apps

AI Will Change What It Is to Be Human. Are We Ready?

Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing

UK homes install subsidised heat pumps at record level

AI probably won't replace me in 2025

Should you ditch Spark for DuckDB or Polars?

Splink: Transforming data linking through open source collaboration

Ask HN: Will progress on LLMs carry over to self driving?

Super-fast deduplication of large datasets using Splink and DuckDB

Why Probabilistic Linkage Is More Accurate Than Fuzzy Matching for Data Deduping

An Interactive Introduction to Probabilistic Data Linkage/Deduplication

Why parquet files are my preferred API for bulk open data

Live map of UK wind energy output, showing wind speed and wind farm locations

SQL should be the default choice for data transformation logic

The UK is wasting a lot of wind power

Why parquet files are my preferred API for bulk open data

Show HN: Splink 3 – multi-back end fuzzy record linkage at scale (FOSS/Python)

The downfall of command and control data leadership

Fuzzy Matching and Deduping Hundreds of Millions of Records with Apache Spark

Show HN: Splink – probabilistic record linkage and deduplication at scale