Joe Chrysler on Atomic Spin

What Does “Run the Tests” Mean? – How Shared Symbols Can Speed Up Team Communication & Reduce Errors

We explicitly define the phrases our team uses every day, then create scripts to carry them out. This frees up brain space and makes onboarding easier.

Developer Tools

Take Control of Your Multi-Browser Life with Choosy

Using a proxy to send some (but not all) of your traffic over a VPN? Choosy wil help you open all of your links in the right browsers and networks.

Extracurricular Activities

How to Keep Home Stuff off Your Work VPN while Social Distancing

Free up your VPN’s capacity for important business traffic and keep video calls lag-free by setting up a selective VPN that only handles work-related traffic.

Developer Tools

Developer Task Automation – It’s Easier Than You Think

Building robust developer task automation for any tech stack is easier than ever. Automate the boring stuff without spending hours debugging rake tasks.

Growing as Makers

Overcoming Pair-formance Anxiety

"Pair-formance Anxiety” is a common emotional state that improves when you consciously work on it, especially if you have help.

Developer Tools

Tighten the Feedback Loop with Published Storybooks

Communicating on-going project updates across teams isn’t always easy. Implementing Storybooks with a continuous integration pipeline helps smooth out that process.

DevOps & System Admin.

Improve Your Cloud Infrastructure with entr, Terraform, and tflint

Don’t let long feedback loops slow down your DevOps team. Iterate faster with cheap, lightweight automation using Entr.

Extracurricular Activities

It’s Okay to Use Public WiFi; You Don’t Need a VPN

Do you need a VPN? Probably not. Today, nearly every email provider, website with sensitive info, and Internet communication channel uses an encrypted line.

Personal Optimization

How to Make Remote Meetings More Pleasant with Zoom

TypeScript

How We Built a Scrappy Curriculum Editor using VSCode, TypeScript, and AWS Lambda

Our document-driven app needed a great authoring tool. We built one in record time using TypeScript, Visual Studio Code, and AWS Lambda.

Developer Tools

Project-Specific Command Line Shortcuts with direnv

How to build a first-class automation toolset that’s ridiculously easy to use with direnv command line shortcuts. It helps me save focus and time every day.

Growing as Makers

What to Try When You’ve Tried Everything Else

The constant tension of the competing tradeoffs in a software project can lead to some nasty bouts of indecision. I've found a few ways to break through.

Joe Chrysler

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