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About Me — Richard Bell

Please don’t use this information to steal my identity.

3 min readAug 28, 2021

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Level Up Coding

Jest a minute… how to mock a class

And make assertions on it’s methods

3 min readJan 16, 2024

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Level Up Coding

Jest a minute — a better way to structure your unit tests

Gherkin isn’t just something you pick off your Big Mac

6 min readJan 12, 2024

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Level Up Coding

PostgreSQL — dumping, relationships and more

Not that kind of dump…

8 min readFeb 27, 2023

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PostgreSQL — dumping, relationships and more

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Level Up Coding

PostgreSQL — Getting started

How to set up PostgreSQL using docker and first steps to interacting with the database using psql and queries from sql files.

7 min readFeb 2, 2023

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Level Up Coding

TypeScript Tidbits — Generic Type Parameter

Occasionally you may find yourself writing a function that could take a number of different types. Generics are what you need…

3 min readAug 30, 2022

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Golang in sixty seconds — panic

We can use the panic function to cause a runtime error in Golang. This can be useful when paired with the recover function

1 min readAug 10, 2022

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Golang in sixty seconds — defer

Golang has a special statement called defer which causes the function to be run after the function completes.

1 min readAug 9, 2022

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Golang in sixty seconds — return multiple values from functions

Golang allows you to return multiple values from a function and to name your return values.

2 min readAug 5, 2022

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Golang in sixty seconds — function basics

Learn the basics of functions in Golang

2 min readAug 4, 2022

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Richard Bell

Richard Bell

Father to two beautiful baby girls | Husband to a generous wife | Lead Software Engineer | Hobby collector | Support me at ko-fi.com/richardtbell

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