Douglas Parsons

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

Sheffield, UK Joined on Sep 11, 2020 dglsparsons@gmail.com https://dgls.dev

Education

University of York, BEng Computer Science

Work

Lead Software Engineer at Shamaazi

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Douglas Parsons

Nov 10 '20

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

#webdev #go #javascript #beginners

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Douglas Parsons

Nov 3 '20

Why EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION is the key skill for being an awesome programmer

#webdev #beginners #career #development

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Douglas Parsons

Oct 26 '20

Avoid COGNITIVE OVERLOAD when programming in 4 simple ways

#beginners #learning #productivity

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Douglas Parsons

Oct 20 '20

Learning programming is DIFFICULT

#beginners #webdev #javascript

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Douglas Parsons

May 20 '21

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

#discuss #watercooler

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Douglas Parsons

Jan 18 '21

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

#webdev #beginners #development

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Douglas Parsons

Jan 8 '21

3 popular technologies that I will strive to never use again

#webdev #scala #programming #python

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Douglas Parsons

Dec 30 '20

Creating challenges: three ways to improve the technical assessment

#webdev #beginners #programming #career

5 min read

Douglas Parsons

Dec 24 '20

Is Next JS really that good?

#discuss #javascript #webdev

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Douglas Parsons

Dec 18 '20

Testing is important: three ways to easily improve test quality

#webdev #testing #beginners #javascript

5 min read

Douglas Parsons

Dec 11 '20

Three unusual qualities we look for to hire amazing developers

#webdev #beginners #programming #career

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Douglas Parsons

Dec 1 '20

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

#webdev #beginners #programming

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Douglas Parsons

Nov 25 '20

3 amazing REACT HOOKS to keep your code organized neatly

#webdev #javascript #react #beginners

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6 min read

Douglas Parsons

Nov 17 '20

How to write IMMUTABLE code and never get stuck debugging again

#javascript #webdev #programming #beginners

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Douglas Parsons

Oct 12 '20

The DRUG of online tutorials

#javascript #beginners #webdev

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Douglas Parsons

Oct 9 '20

Go Logger - Why we wrote our own

#showdev #webdev #devops #go

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Douglas Parsons

Sep 30 '20

You should only write USEFUL tests

#webdev #javascript #testing #productivity

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Douglas Parsons

Sep 30 '20

A Trick to Help With Reference Data

#webdev #codequality #productivity #javascript

4 min read

Douglas Parsons

Sep 30 '20

A Simple Reference Data Management Trick

#webdev #codequality #productivity

4 min read

Douglas Parsons

Sep 25 '20

Task - An easy to use tool to simplify your build

#webdev #javascript #productivity #tutorial

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Douglas Parsons

Sep 21 '20

On Testing

#testing #devops

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

Why EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION is the key skill for being an awesome programmer

Avoid COGNITIVE OVERLOAD when programming in 4 simple ways

Learning programming is DIFFICULT

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

Want to connect with Douglas Parsons?

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

3 popular technologies that I will strive to never use again

Creating challenges: three ways to improve the technical assessment

Is Next JS really that good?

Testing is important: three ways to easily improve test quality

Three unusual qualities we look for to hire amazing developers

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

3 amazing REACT HOOKS to keep your code organized neatly

How to write IMMUTABLE code and never get stuck debugging again

The DRUG of online tutorials

Go Logger - Why we wrote our own

You should only write USEFUL tests

A Trick to Help With Reference Data

A Simple Reference Data Management Trick

Task - An easy to use tool to simplify your build

On Testing