Articles in the blog category
-
PHP Patterns Part 1 - Repository Pattern
As I do more work at new work, I expect I will come across a few of these patterns that I don't know about. For some reason Software Design Patterns are a trigger for my deeply ingrained Imposter - I find myself regularly having to apologise for my lack of 'proper' …
-
Short People Problems
As an exactly average height person, I have always struggled in jobs to find a comfortable way to work. Desks are always too high, chairs are too low, monitors never adjust enough... I've always had to beg for special stuff like foot rests, adjustable chairs, monitor arms etc so that …
-
My 'Simple' Life - Morning Routine
I am a big believer in "work smarter not harder", hence why I am a programmer - and a Python programmer at that. If I have to do a job more than once you can guarantee there will be a little script for it somewhere. The same works for real life …
-
Things I learnt at FullStack Conf London
Thankfully, not much of the stuff at the conference was new to me - I would be worried for my career if I'd not at least heard about most of this! - but I've been working in Python for so long now I've not given much brain time over to JS for …
-
Diversity in the Tech Industry
I am still figuring out where my opinions are on this topic, as such I reserve the right to contradict myself, change my mind and just generally be wrong throughout this and every subsequent post on the subject.
So I am what is considered "diverse" within the techy industry. This …
-
Very Simple Function Mocking with PyTest
Apparently TDD is the way to to modern software development. I say that facetiously, TDD is the ONLY way to do software development!! However, I often find that writing the tests end up taking way more work and is way more complicated than writing the code itself, but mostly that's …