Joe Chrysler on Atomic Spin

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.

Developer Tools

My Git Branching Strategy – Graph Gardening

Reduce merge conflicts & improve collaboration with a minimal git branching approach – 4 pragmatic git strategies to help you spend more time writing code.

Developer Tools

Simulate Network Outages in Your App with Little Snitch

Sometimes, you need to test your app’s response to network outages. Suddenly all those networked debugging tools become kind of a problem.

Extracurricular Activities

How Many Sprints Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?

How many sprints does it take to change a lightbulb... into a smart home system everyone in your family loves? A few. But being Agile keeps you from wasting money and driving your

React Native

Three Habits to Break on Large React Native Projects

If you read much React Native code, you’re bound to pick up a few bad habits. Here are three that you should try to break on your next React Native project.

Developer Tools

Three Command Line Utilities to Reduce Everyday Frustrations

Cut through tangled jungles of JSON, search massive codebases faster than you can blink, and find files by name with less fuss using these three command line tools.

React Native

Three Pitfalls of React Native Development (and How to Leap Over Them)

Three pitfalls my team fell into while building our app, three stories of how we pulled ourselves out, and three ways that you can avoid falling in too.

Development Practices

Five Build Commands to Make Project Onboarding Faster & Easier

New team members should be able to jump in and run your project in 10 minutes, flat. So the next time you start a new project, write your Makefile first.

Planning Your Project

Four Reasons Your Mobile App Needs a Web Back End

A web backend is essential to power many of the experiences that customers expect from a top-tier mobile application – syncing, support, etc.

Personal Optimization

You’re Not the Only Imposter at the Office: 6 Strategies for Dealing with Imposter Syndrome at Work

You're not alone! Here are some coping techniques we've discovered to deal with the more-common-than-you-think problem of Imposter Syndrome at work.

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