Delicious Reverie is the personal home of Benjamin Read on the web.

I'm a Senior and sometimes Lead JavaScript Software Engineer with experience of FinTech and Property Tech markets. I enjoy hanging out with my friends and family. I'm a partial to poetry and book collecting.

Most Recent articles:

• First steps with the Temporal API

  Dates in JavaScript are changing forever: The Temporal API is now at Stage 4, which means it's stable, and there's a polyfill available. It's time to start getting familiar with the API.

  Published on Thursday 8 May 2025

  This article is about: javascript

  Sad songs say so much

  I enjoy times when I'm gleefully happy. But I also enjoy being melancholy, which quite often comes out in my musical tastes. Here are some of my favourite melancholy songs, and why I like them.

  Published on Friday 21 February 2025

  This article is about: music

Latest articles about Leadership:

• Dreamers, Builders and Cultivators

  In a well established team, personality traits often come into play. Here we group three main types that, when recognised and supported, can help the business and the technology team to thrive.

  Published on Friday 9 May 2025

  Start and end with the people

  Professional software development at an enterprise scale is inherently, and at every level, social. How does comprehension of this fact help teams to perform better?

  Published on Saturday 19 October 2024

So far, 154 total articles published.

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