On becoming an Engineering Manager - Part 1
Some thoughts on my journey into the role of an Engineering Manager at work, what the role typically entails, how you might become one and some general thoughts on leadership that you may find interesting.
J7mbo - James Mallison
Constructors in Go
One of Go's weaknesses is the ability to initialise a struct in an 'invalid state', leading to the potential of accidental nil pointer dereferencing further down the line. Learn how we solved this pragmatically.
The law of obviousness
Simple code extremely obvious in intention over unecessary abstraction and indirection.
Bypassing Golang's lack of constructors
Golang doesn't provide constructors but instead advocates for a package-level factory method with the New convention. If only this were then the singular way of initialising an object; unfortunately this is not always necessarily the case..
From callbacks to async / await in Swift
Most of the code you write in Swift has to at least consider asynchronicity when building an iOS app, apart from updating the ui, and even then you have to think about where the correct place to do this is.