Sam Parkinson

Hi, I'm Sam Parkinson

I love helping people with design, software and machine learning

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Derivations 102 - Learning Nix pt 4

Taking advantage of the fact Nix is a programming language

Creating a super simple derivation - Learning Nix pt 3

Wrapping some shell scripts

So Variables are a Thing - Learning Nix pt 2

Taking advantage of the fact Nix is a programming language

NSDC 2016 Topics

Digitizing the motions from National Schools Debating Championships 2016

Environments with Nix Shell - Learning Nix pt 1

An introduction for how to run Nix code

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A narrative tech podcast

Join us as we explore the stories that shape our technology today.

Episodes range from the systemd-timesyncd controversy, to a satirical ICO launch.

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FLOSS contributions

I've written a few GNOME apps, available on GitHub. I also occasionally send patches upstream.

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Built, launched and grew LearntEmail; an email marketing platform harnessing the power of machine learning

In late 2017, LearntEmail was acquired by Bellwethr

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Google Code In 2014: Grand Prize Winner

I contributed to Sugar Labs during the Google Code In, and was awarded for my efforts.

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FLOSS maintainer and contributor

Sugar is a desktop environment and set of apps for school students; commonly used on OLPC laptops.

I contributed to Sugar, and managed the 0.108 release cycle.

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