Joe Chrysler on Atomic Spin

Building a Better Book Club: a 5-step Strategy for Efficiently Ingesting Nonfiction

With this five-step strategy, we’re making absorbing the good ideas locked in business books more efficient and enjoyable.

Personal Optimization

Need to Copy the URL for a Slack Message Quickly? Don’t Do This

Use Keyboard Maestro and its screen recognition engine to add a keyboard shortcut will copy the Slack URL for the currently selected message.

Project & Team Management

Remember When Your Team Decided What with Obsidian

Consider adding an Obsidian Vault to the team's Google Drive, One Drive, Dropbox, or iCloud drive as a memory repository for your project.

Extracurricular Activities

Build Yourself a Drivel Filter with RSS

Over time, our task has shifted from gathering scarce information to filtering an abundance of information. Build yourself a drivel filter with RSS.

Personal Optimization

Remember When You Said What to Whom with These 3 Obsidian Tips

Give these three tips a shot and see if Obsidian can help you retain more and richer information from your daily conversations.

Developer Tools

Ingest Inconsistent Tables Quickly Using Postgres’s JSON Columns

Here’s how you can leverage JSON columns to help smooth out the distinctions between tables you are ingesting into a PostgreSQL database.

Personal Optimization

Your Brain is a Cache, Not a Database

I used to be anxious about my memory, but reframing my brain as a cache helped me worry less. If you’ve got memory anxiety, maybe this can help you too.

Development

How Pastries Collapse and Custom Software Projects Fail

I'd never say that you should never build any custom software. But you have to enter into custom software projects knowing the "custom" part will be risky.

.NET / WPF

How to Extract Data from a Legacy Visual FoxPro Application

If you’ve been challenged to extract data from a Visual FoxPro database, use this recipe to get a development environment up and running fast.

Culture

What Your More Experienced Programming Partner Learns from You

A lot of developers worry that they’re a drag on a more experienced programming partner. That couldn’t be farther from the truth.

Extracurricular Activities

Turn Your iPhone into a Webcam with Shortcuts and Camo

With about five minutes of work, you can turn your iPhone into a webcam. With about 10 minutes more work, and a sticker, you can even make it automatic.

React Native

Add Support for Split View and Slide Over to Your React Native App

If you’ve been trying to figure out why you can’t get your React Native app to work in Split View and Slide Over on iPad, here’s the solution.

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