Devney Hamilton on Atomic Spin

Ask these Questions when Applying Machine Learning to People

As machine learning techniques are increasingly used to make predictions about people, there are a few big ethical questions we need to be asking ourselves.

Growing as Makers

Screen Sharing is Worth a Thousand Words

Without screen sharing, I might have wasted hours of our client's time and created frustration going after technical problems that didn’t exist.

Swift

Customizing UIWebView for PDFs in Swift

Apple largely treats UIWebViews like a black box: Documentation warns that they should not be subclassed—what if you want to customize how they show PDFs?

Growing as Makers

Rejuvenating My Developer Identity at AndConf

I expected to learn and meet people doing cool things with tech. I didn’t expect to reconnect my "software developer" identity with my sense of self.

Software Science

Time Zones Aren’t Offsets – Offsets Aren’t Time Zones

Offsets are not time zones, and time zones are not offsets! I want to make the difference clear, so we can make intelligent decisions about using each.

Ruby on Rails

A Minimalist Guide to Customizing ActiveAdmin Forms

A minimalist's guide to customizing ActiveAdmin forms, relying more on Ruby and logic than on the unique ins and outs of ActiveAdmin.

iOS / OS X

CoreLocation in the Wild: Experiments in Monitoring More than 20 iBeacon Regions

So we needed to engineer a way around Core Location's limit and track more than 20 distinct iBeacon regions in our system.

Evolving the Industry

Volunteering at Hour of Code

Our job was to encourage and guide students through what was, for many of them, their first formal introduction to computer science.

Growing as Makers

How to Showcase Your Development Skills as a Busy Student

How do you build a portfolio of projects for your software developer resume when you’re a busy, working student with little time for "side projects"?

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.

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