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Douglas Parsons

Lead Engineer @ Shamaazi • AWS • Go • React • Terraform • Posting nonsense. Writing at dgls.dev. Follow me on Twitter if you care.

Location Sheffield, UK Joined Joined on  Email address dglsparsons@gmail.com Personal website https://dgls.dev github website twitter website

Education

University of York, BEng Computer Science

Work

Lead Software Engineer at Shamaazi

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Write better code and be a better programmer by NEVER USING ELSE statements
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Write better code and be a better programmer by NEVER USING ELSE statements

#webdev #go #javascript #beginners
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Why EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION is the key skill for being an awesome programmer
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Why EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION is the key skill for being an awesome programmer

#webdev #beginners #career #development
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Avoid COGNITIVE OVERLOAD when programming in 4 simple ways
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Avoid COGNITIVE OVERLOAD when programming in 4 simple ways

#beginners #learning #productivity
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Learning programming is DIFFICULT
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Learning programming is DIFFICULT

#beginners #webdev #javascript
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Outside of dev.to, what's your favourite online community?
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Outside of dev.to, what's your favourite online community?

#discuss #watercooler
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Tolerances: How Formula 1 pistons can teach us to be better developers
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Tolerances: How Formula 1 pistons can teach us to be better developers

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3 popular technologies that I will strive to never use again
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3 popular technologies that I will strive to never use again

#webdev #scala #programming #python
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Creating challenges: three ways to improve the technical assessment
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Creating challenges: three ways to improve the technical assessment

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Is Next JS really that good?
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Is Next JS really that good?

#discuss #javascript #webdev
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Testing is important: three ways to easily improve test quality
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Testing is important: three ways to easily improve test quality

#webdev #testing #beginners #javascript
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Three unusual qualities we look for to hire amazing developers
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Three unusual qualities we look for to hire amazing developers

#webdev #beginners #programming #career
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Don't Write Utils: how to become an amazing programmer by naming carefully
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Don't Write Utils: how to become an amazing programmer by naming carefully

#webdev #beginners #programming
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3 amazing REACT HOOKS to keep your code organized neatly
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3 amazing REACT HOOKS to keep your code organized neatly

#webdev #javascript #react #beginners
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How to write IMMUTABLE code and never get stuck debugging again
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How to write IMMUTABLE code and never get stuck debugging again

#javascript #webdev #programming #beginners
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The DRUG of online tutorials
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The DRUG of online tutorials

#javascript #beginners #webdev
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Go Logger - Why we wrote our own
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Go Logger - Why we wrote our own

#showdev #webdev #devops #go
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You should only write USEFUL tests
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You should only write USEFUL tests

#webdev #javascript #testing #productivity
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A Trick to Help With Reference Data
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A Trick to Help With Reference Data

#webdev #codequality #productivity #javascript
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A Simple Reference Data Management Trick
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A Simple Reference Data Management Trick

#webdev #codequality #productivity
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Task - An easy to use tool to simplify your build
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Task - An easy to use tool to simplify your build

#webdev #javascript #productivity #tutorial
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On Testing
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On Testing

#testing #devops
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