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Robin Palotai

Hi guys, I'm Robin. A long (?) time software developer, here to help you be more effective in coding and at the workplace.

I started coding on a ZX Spectrum (1), but got semi-serious only later using Turbo Pascal. Got to administer the school's Linux servers (we wanted to download movies using wget with an unimaginable 20K/sec speed). Got in good company, learned C, went to uni.

Got some research experience, also worked as a programmer at Ericsson, Epam and finally Google. I stayed there for 5 years, tech lead a small team for the second half.

Recently I went entreprenurial with family & friends. I'm actively working on juremy.com (tool for legal translators) and my book [Programming Without Anxiety][treetide.com/book/programming-with...].

I also belive we programmers don't read enough code. So I want to make good code reading material accessible - to that end I open-sourced Underhood, my code browsing frontend (2).

Feel free to ask me about situations related to programming as a day job (stuck? unmotivated? insecure? bored?). I'll do my best to answer.

(1): I try to recreate the atmosphere in a modern environment, see twitter.com/hashtag/zxhs and github.com/TreeTide/zxhs.

(2): This is pretty early stage yet, can have a peek at codeunderhood.com.
Code at github.com/TreeTide/underhood.