Jesse Hill

Atomic Accelerator

Pursing a Career in Software Development? Focus on Teamwork

Emotional intelligence skills you learn through teamwork will be more valuable throughout your life than learning one more programming language.

Personal Optimization

If you're feeling burnout or exhaustion, there's no quick fix. The action plan you put together to remedy the situation will take time.

Managing Your Team

Rather than be a voice of opposition to an idea, I try to ask questions to help folks work through the problem-solving process on their own.

The Software Life

I’ve recently been referring to Atom's approach as "Deep Collaboration." We get great benefits from working this way in person.

Project & Team Management

Do some problems keep resurfacing, despite your best efforts to address them? You're probably missing the real, underlying issue.

Atomic Accelerator

We've always written the game boards in Clojure and distributed them via a JAR file. This year, we tried using Docker instead, and it went very well!

Project & Team Management

Conflict can pull a team apart. It's on each of us to take responsibility and focus on mutual understanding and working together to find a solution.

Development Practices

Tackling a large, legacy codebase? You need to understand the overall picture first. Start with the 10,000-foot view, and slowly work your way down.

Personal Optimization

A smart, passionate group can spend hours debating the pros and cons of different options. But what if you started by aligning on a few principles?

Personal Optimization

Goal planning is great, but the traditional approach doesn't work for everybody. Maybe you're an explorer, a gardener, a builder, or a philosopher.

Growing as Makers

It can be challenging to come up with meaningful professional development goals as you get further into your career. Here are three tips to help!

Choosing Your Team

We included reading code in our programming challenge this year and really loved the results. This article discusses a few ways to try this out.