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:

• How to Cache and De-duplicate Fetch Requests

  If you have an application which makes many requests to the same API you can use a key to cache and de-duplicate requests. Here's how to do it.

  Published on Tuesday, 18 November 2025

  This article is about: javascript

  Lessons from refactoring a large dashboard application

  Over the past few months I've been refactoring a large application. I learned a few things from doing it, and thought they might help someone else.

  Published on Sunday, 16 November 2025

  This article is about: javascript

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, 159 total articles published.

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