Working Practices
Take your stand-up to the next level
Make your daily stand-up quicker and more efficient with this simple method
Has COVID killed the daily stand-up?
The meeting that was “for the developers, by the developers” has turned into another status update meeting for middle managers.
5 simple tips to speed up your development environment
I'm pretty lazy, but lazy in a productive way, so I spend a little extra time and effort once so I can be lazy in the future.
Six things that will make you a better developer
Whether you're new to software engineering, or you've been doing it for years, these six things will make you better
Confessions of a Lead Engineer
I hope my boss doesn't read this…
How two babies and a toddler made me a better mentor.
You don't need to be an expert to be a mentor
How to get stuff done when your brain says no
Some tricks to focus when your brain decides you have a million things you must do right now.
7 reasons why video calls are so tiring and what to do about it.
Everyone feels it — be the one to do something about it.
Richard Bell
Self taught software developer with 11 years experience excelling at JavaScript/Typescript, React, Node and AWS.
I love learning and teaching and have mentored several junior developers over my career. I find teaching is one of the best ways to solidify your own learning, so in the past few years I've been maintaining a technical blog where I write about some things that I've been learning.
I'm passionate about building a teams culture and processes to make it efficient and satisfying to work in. In many roles I have improved the quality and reliability of the code base by introducing or improving the continuous integration pipeline to include quality gates.