Drew Colthorp on Atomic Spin

TypeScript

Testing Strategies in the Atomic TypeScript Stack

An overview of our strategies for ensuring software quality in a universal TypeScript stack and how we've structured our systems for fast feedback cycles.

Growing as Makers

Advice for Superheroes and Software Consultants

Don’t measure yourself by an individual max. Instead, figure out your own stat matrix and abilities, and develop those into your own flavor of hero.

Project & Team Management

Your Backlog Isn’t a To-Do List – It’s Self-fulfilling Prophecy of Success or Failure

Good software can only be built via a well-run project — starting with a great backlog that helps you refine the big-picture plan and stay on track.

TypeScript

“Understanding TypeScript’s Structural Type System” at Strange Loop 2018

My talk focuses on three main concepts: 1) Structural typing, 2) Control-flow based type analysis, and 3) Type-level programming in TypeScript.

Project & Team Management

Project Team Roles at Atomic – The Tech Lead

The tech lead manages feasibility and technical constraints: ensuring the system architecture and technology stack will support the intended product and enable the team to meet ove

Growing as Makers

Your Dev Project Is a Classroom; Be Intentional about Learning

Learning during projects is usually incidental, a happy accident—but that's a huge wasted opportunity. By being intentional, you'll be surprised what you can learn every day.

TypeScript

Statically Typed Data Validation with JSON Schema and TypeScript

How to use JSON schema to validate data and generate the corresponding TypeScript types for flexible, declarative data validation.

DevOps & System Admin.

Coordinated Cache Refill with Redis and Node

A case study of how to coordinate cache invalidation across a cluster of workers using Node.js, Redis, and TypeScript. See how to gracefully allow just one worker to compute a new

TypeScript

Flavoring: Flexible Nominal Typing for TypeScript

TypeScript flavoring allows unbranded values to be implicitly converted into the branded type, but doesn’t allow implicit conversion between branded types.

TypeScript

A Simple, Functional Module Pattern for TypeScript

A pattern for defining abstractions in TypeScript in a functional way that works well with Webpack and Visual Studio Code.

TypeScript

Small, Simple, Functional Lenses for TypeScript

We put together a tiny little lens library for TypeScript, focused on: small size, static type safety, composition over DSLs, and zero dependencies.

TypeScript

A New Redux Action Pattern for TypeScript 2.4+

A minimal-boilerplate, strongly typed action pattern for defining Redux actions and reducers in TypeScript 2.4 and newer.

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