Robin Linderborg
Datajournalist
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolRobin Linderborg is a datajournalist based in Stockholm with 11 years of experience turning complex datasets into clear, publishable stories and interactive visualizations. Currently at Datastory after four years at SVT, Robin blends newsroom reporting instincts with front-end and back-end web development to deliver engaging online journalism. Contributions to the widely used psf/requests library show a pragmatic focus on code maintainability and correctness, notably improving cookie handling performance. Trained in journalism and philosophy at Lund University, Robin pairs rigorous critical thinking with a knack for making technical details accessible to broader audiences.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor, Journalism, Bachelor, Journalism at Lund University
Github Skills (6)
cookie10
python10
http-request10
http9
webclient8
clientside8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
psf/requests
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Robin primarily focused on refactoring and improving the efficiency of the cookie handling logic within the requests library. Their contributions involved unnesting loops, simplifying conditional statements, and replacing less clear logic with more explicit checks. They also added themselves to the list of authors and corrected a link error in the AUTHORS file. This work demonstrates a focus on code maintainability and correctness within the project.
pythonforhumansrequestspython-requestscookies
miroli/flashback
Oct 2015 - Oct 2019
The handiest Flashback scraper in the game
Contributions:36 commits, 1 PR, 23 pushes in 4 years 1 month
scraper
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