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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.

Education

University of York, BEng Computer Science

Work

Lead Software Engineer at Shamaazi

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Outside of dev.to, what's your favourite online community?

Outside of dev.to, what's your favourite online community?

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

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

3 popular technologies that I will strive to never use again

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Creating challenges: three ways to improve the technical assessment

Creating challenges: three ways to improve the technical assessment

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Is Next JS really that good?

Is Next JS really that good?

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Testing is important: three ways to easily improve test quality

Testing is important: three ways to easily improve test quality

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Three unusual qualities we look for to hire amazing developers

Three unusual qualities we look for to hire amazing developers

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Don't Write Utils: how to become an amazing programmer by naming carefully

Don't Write Utils: how to become an amazing programmer by naming carefully

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3 amazing REACT HOOKS to keep your code organized neatly

3 amazing REACT HOOKS to keep your code organized neatly

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How to write IMMUTABLE code and never get stuck debugging again

How to write IMMUTABLE code and never get stuck debugging again

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The DRUG of online tutorials

The DRUG of online tutorials

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Go Logger - Why we wrote our own

Go Logger - Why we wrote our own

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You should only write USEFUL tests

You should only write USEFUL tests

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A Trick to Help With Reference Data

A Trick to Help With Reference Data

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A Simple Reference Data Management Trick

A Simple Reference Data Management Trick

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Task - An easy to use tool to simplify your build

Task - An easy to use tool to simplify your build

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On Testing

On Testing

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