Damien Hampton
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Damien Hampton

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

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...

Running CPU heavy tasks on Node.js

Apr 17, 20204 min read

TL;DR You can offload CPU intensive code using Node’s worker threads module. A demo app of the effect of this can be found here. I thought I...

Running CPU heavy tasks on Node.js