Damien Hampton
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Damien Hampton

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I'm a software developer trying to build sustainable software using Test Driven Development. I advocate for autonomous teams, continuous learning and failing fast.

My journey to engineering manager and leader

Dec 22, 20226 min read

I've been in the tech industry for over 20 years and whilst I've never strayed too far from coding, roughly half of my experience has been in...

My journey to engineering manager and leader

TypeScript function signatures

Oct 25, 20212 min read

Here are four different ways to define a typed function in TypeScript. //A const strLen: (str: string) => number = str => { return...

Set-up a Node, TypeScript and Jest project from scratch with VSCode debugging

Oct 18, 20218 min read

Node, JavaScript and Mocha ... ah, simpler times. I often find the configuration settings for Node, TypeScript and Jest a little confusing....

Things I would tell myself when I started software development...

Oct 8, 20212 min read

Inspired by this excellent video by devinsideyou, I thought I'd make my own list of things I would tell myself when I was starting out. It's an...

Learning Scala – part 2

May 25, 20204 min read

I’ve been asked to contribute to a Scala project and I’m documenting my journey learning Scala and making that contribution. This is part two. Here is...

Beginning Scala

May 19, 20203 min read

I thought it might be interesting to document my journey from complete Scala beginner to contributing to a real Scala project (hopefully). I will...