Dan Kelch

Constraints Are Necessary When Building Custom Software

When building custom software, constraints are a good thing. Discover what they are, or make them up to add some clarity around a project.

Developer Tools

For Code Consistency, Always Share Your Environment Settings

IDEs offer plenty of options for sharing configuration settings in a team. Sharing configuration files enforces code consistency and reduces ramp-in.

TypeScript

The Benefits of Test-Driven Type-Driven Development

I've found that the type-driven development pattern works well, and compliments the test-driven development style that many of us at Atomic favor.

Developer Tools

6 Tips for Styling with Grommet

After using Grommet as a styling library for a few months, I have collected six recommendations that have improved our experience.

Atomic Thinking

Using the Strangler Pattern to Reduce Risk in an Insurance Software Rewrite

When looking at a rewrite, start by evaluating the risks, and think outside the box to come up with some solutions.

Development Practices

Making Impossible Builds Impossible

There are times when additional steps must occur during automated builds. Strategically insert fail points to ensure these conditions are met.

DevOps & System Admin.

Best Practices for Managing AWS Configuration with Multiple Sets of Credentials

With these simple principles, I'm able to easily use AWS across multiple accounts and regions on both the web and command line.

Personal Optimization

Work-from-Home Fatigue? Change Things Up

When you're working from home, changing routines is a great way to press the reset button, look at things with a new perspective, and regain energy and focus.

Project & Team Management

Never Average Story Points!

Estimating work is a difficult process, and coming to consensus can be challenging. But just averaging everyone's points estimates isn't good enough.

TypeScript

Three Reasons to Use Yarn in 2020 (and Beyond)

Even with improvements to NPM, Yarn still provides compelling reasons to choose it. And I believe it's only going to keep getting better.

Web Apps

How to Add Custom Functions to a Jest Test Suite

I want easy-to-use, discoverable functions for my Jest test suite. I don't want to change much syntax, and I don't want to import anything.

TypeScript

Achieve Project-Wide Type Checking with TypeScript and Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code is a perfect editor for TypeScript, but it doesn't support project-wide type-checking out of the box. Luckily, you can add it to your own TypeScript project.

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