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

Jan 18, 2021 · 9 min read · Recently, while procrastinating from work, I found myself watching a youtube video on Formula 1 pistons. This video seeks to answer the question: why does a Formula 1 car piston cost around 1,000 times the amount of a typical road car (£50,000 vs £50...

3 popular technologies that I will strive to never use again

Jan 8, 2021 · 8 min read · There are a lot of different technologies out there. More than anyone could possibly explore. The de-facto position is to look for technologies that are popular, following the logic that “if enough people like it, it must be good”. In my experience, ...

Creating challenges: three ways to improve the technical assessment

Dec 30, 2020 · 9 min read · Through December, I spent a large amount of time doing two things: working my way through the 2020 Advent Of Code; and assessing applications for a job opening we had at Shamaazi. The two initially sound unrelated, but part of our hiring process invo...

Testing is important: three ways to easily improve test quality

Dec 18, 2020 · 9 min read · It’s no secret that testing is important. We rely on tests to describe intended behaviour, catch any subtle bugs and prevent regressions in our code. But why are tests always such a pain to write well? In mature codebases tests quickly become convolu...