Culture Jason Porritt on Perseverance, Developers as Authors, and How Writing Software is Like Making Music Jason, a software developer at Atomic Object, talks about perseverance, developers as authors, and how writing software is like making music.
Extracurricular Activities Monte Carlo Tree Search for Game AI The algorithm works by representing all the possible states of the game in a "game tree." The root node of the tree is the initial game state.
Developer Tools A Simple JIRA Webhook for Sending Email Updates A JIRA webhook provides a flexible way to extend your workflows, and take specific actions, such as sending e-mails, based on issue updates and transitions.
Functional Programming 4 Tips for Thinking Functionally Learning to write code with a functional paradigm isn't easy at first, but there are some things you can do to learn.
Development Practices Maintaining Your Sanity Across Time Zones A few strategies to make working with time zones less confusing.
Web Apps Creating Vertical Alignment with Susy and CSS Flexbox I encountered a project which required vertical alignment across different kinds of elements, ideally without hard-coding a dimension anywhere.
Software Science Exploring Logic Programming in Clojure’s core.logic – Overview & Understanding Palindromes How to describe the concept of palindromes using Clojure's core.logic library.
Culture Working at a Socially Responsible Company One of the aspects I like the most about where I work that I feel like flies under the radar is how socially responsible we are as an organization.
Extracurricular Activities Warrior Cats – The Game My daughter, now 11 years old, had sparked my interest in the Scratch project from MIT. To get her in a little deeper, we developed a game together.
Growing as Makers Sweat the Details, Land the Job Clearly, we can’t hire everyone who applies—so what makes the great candidates stand out from the good?
Functional Programming TDD in a REPL Using F#'s interactive REPL scripting to do iterative Test-Driven Development (TDD).
iOS / OS X Intro to Modals in iOS How to get started with iOS modal view implementation, including a list of tools.