3 Career Mistakes New Go Developers Should Avoid

2025-03-23 Atomic Essay

A few years ago, at the GopherCon UK conference, I asked three programming instructors and mentors a straightforward question: What early career mistake will you never make again? Continue reading

Benchmarking: What You Can't Miss in Go 1.24

2025-03-11 Go

For us Go developers, writing less code means fewer opportunities to make mistakes. But how about achieving more by doing less? That sounds appealing. Isn’t it? And how about spending less time writing code to force the compiler not to optimise the benchmarking functions?

How To Connect to Your New DigitalOcean Droplet

2025-03-01 DevOps

We’ve just provisioned a new Ubuntu 24.04 LTS droplet in Digital Ocean. What to do next?

How to Write Better Tests in Go

2025-01-20 Go

How do you know if what you are building is the right thing? How do you know if the product you just put into customers’ hands doesn’t harm them? Don’t put them into hospital or worse, kill them? Continue reading

People Who Have Influenced Me in Quality Engineering

2025-01-18 Atomic Essay

I’ve been interested in engineering quality since I assembled my first electronic radio over 40 years ago. Since then, I’ve explored how focusing on the quality of work in the electronics, electric, and automation industries affects the products I put into people’s hands. Continue reading

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