As I have become more tenured in my career, I’ve developed strong feelings around best practices for mentoring junior developers. Those practices create a welcoming and inclusive learning environment at Atomic. It’s been a satisfying experience because I get to see people have similar struggles to the ones I had when I was a junior […]
It is important to validate any external data when using Typescript. You are not guaranteed that the data is what you think it is by casting. One way to validate your data is by using type guards: type Foo = { x: string; } const isAFoo = (x: unknown): x is Foo => { return […]
In five years as a professional software developer, I’ve gathered quite a few pieces of knowledge that I don’t have the vocabulary to describe. These are pieces of knowledge you don’t have the words to describe but that make perfect sense in your head. When working with experienced developers, it isn’t a problem since they […]
As far as I’m aware, there isn’t a built-in solution for statically typing a configuration for the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). So after a bit of research, I created a way of doing it! CDK Context Context is a way to pass in runtime values to our CDK application. You can do this several […]
I’m a strong advocate for leaving your work at home during vacations. However, with the rise of remote work, the possibility of a working vacation became an appealing option for seeing the world while still preserving PTO. With that in mind, my partner and I recently decided to take our first-ever working vacation. If you […]
One of the best pieces of advice I have received in my career is that I should be more willing to admit when I don’t know something. I had a bad habit of making it seem like I had everything figured out when I didn’t. One can only speculate on why I did this, but […]
Many times, I’ve read through someone else’s code while raging internally. There are also plenty of times where I was reading code and having mean thoughts before I realized the code was my own. I realized I wouldn’t want anyone voicing these thoughts about my code. This led me to start making an attempt to […]
React Navigation is a great library for including routing and navigation in your React Native application. As of React Navigation 5.x, there are useful hooks that allow you to access the navigation state of your library. These hooks are great for when you don’t want to pass navigation information deep into your component tree. The […]
Most of my time at Atomic Object has been focused on individual projects. However, I am occasionally asked to handle the responsibilities of multiple projects in parallel. Dealing with one project is difficult enough, so managing multiple projects can feel extremely challenging. Since there is only so much context you can hold in your head […]
I enjoy the work I do as a software developer… most of the time. As with any passion that becomes a profession, some tasks make me question why I started programming in the first place. While I still love my craft, tasks that have a long feedback loop, don’t require much brainpower, or that aren’t […]
