About

I am Robin and this blog is a place where I can write about things I find interesting. I'm a software engineer, living near Trondheim, Norway. I work as a consultant for Arktekk. There are lots of topics related to my work that I'd like to write about:

• Things I learn. In my line of work, I learn something new almost every day and I'd like to get better at writing down some of those things.
• Debugging and tools for debugging complex systems. I love a good debugging story and while I try to avoid outages as much as possible, I do enjoy the intense concentration and focus that a production incident requires.
• Some technology. These days, I'm enjoying Rust a lot but I have a lot more experience with languages like Java and Python, and I really like PostgreSQL. I've also done some machine learning at work, and I really like wrangling and trying to understand tabular data.
• Working in teams and building culture. I've had the great fortune of being part of several teams with great culture for learning and while I don't know all of the ingredients that made that happen, I'm super interested in making it happen again.
• I'm programming Scala again for the first time in about 10 years, so I'm hoping to write a bit about how that experience is now.

I have some hobbies that I might write about at some point too, particularly when they overlap with technology in some way:

• Fishing. The chances of finding me near a lake between May and October are reasonably good.
• Photography. I wanted to take the nicest landscape photos, but after my son was born I'm mostly taking only family photos.

I used to blog a little bit during my stint in Posten/Bring, so you can read some of my previous blog posts here.