Head of Backend Development for the LifeWorks App. Coding for 15+ years, a TDD advocate, PHP fan, with an interest in Complexity Theory.
We've known for a long time that stories are deeply flawed, that history often only represents one perspective. Stories are put together after an event using a collection of facts, but never all the facts.
October 29, 2021Culture is probably the most important aspect of a development team, get the culture wrong and the team and the work will suffer.
October 01, 2021I've found working at companies with decent people cultures has dramatically improved my wellbeing.
September 21, 2021In software development complexity itself is an emergent property of code. At some point in the development process software crosses the boundary between simple and complex.
July 17, 2020This post aims to show you how to begin to write tests in Deno, and provides an honest appraisal of Deno's test tools so you are aware of current pitfalls.
June 13, 2020There are some great, free design tools online which are very helpful and I thought I'd make a quick note of a few of them.
May 27, 2020Code Analysis allows you to generate lots of metrics and information which help you improve your code and prove it's quality.
May 13, 2020Code Isolation is a relatively simple concept, it just means one piece of code should not know about or affect any other piece of code.
May 11, 2020Tests are one of the most important ways to prove your code works, they enable observability and provide a guarantee code will work as expected.
May 08, 2020A few social media tools which are useful when building a website.
April 30, 2020