๐Ÿ‘‹ Hi there

I am Royletron, a software engineer

๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ Need some help?

Some things I can help with...

๐Ÿ—ฃ Talks!

I've done quite a few at various meetups & events in the UK

๐Ÿง™โ€โ™€๏ธ Code

There are a few too many of my projects out there! Some good, some strange.

โœ๏ธ Blog

As well as this blog I have also written for other people and sites.

๐ŸŽ“ Training

There are lots of things I have done workshops and practical tutorials on. From modern devops to kids learning binary math!

๐Ÿ‘€ From the Blog

Most recent posts

How To Hire Engineers

How To Hire Engineers

ยท Managing

Hiring engineers is horribly difficult, you either have to make a call on someone with a tiny window of visibility or create a lengthy process that puts people off. In this article I show you how to hit that sweet spot of teasing out whether a candidate has the desired skills and behaviors, without spending weeks getting there.

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Von Count

Von Count

ยท Projects

We recently found need to count lines of our code, but with added context that things like `cloc` can't give us. Basically at a glance we wanted to see the use of certain features/components/libraries so that we could phase them out slowly over time and see progress ๐Ÿงฎ.

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Wrestly

Wrestly

ยท Projects

This week we have been working with remote APIs, Webhooks and OAuth. Those alone will be blogged about plenty in the future, but in doing this task we have bourne another mini project that we have found really useful.

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