Joe Chrysler on Atomic Spin

Three Tips to Make Your Next Dependency Upgrade Easier

Over time, even well-managed web apps can see their dependencies fall behind. The JavaScript community moves fast, and if you don't stay on top of it, you can wind up with a packag

Personal Optimization

For Better Meetings, Use Better Tools

If led with care, meetings can be a fantastic vehicle for building the emotional connections and shared understanding crucial to a successful project.

Mobile Apps

Supercharging Xamarin Studio’s Play Button with Custom Build Steps

Here’s how we leverage custom build steps in Xamarin Studio to make our workdays easier... No more "relying on an error-prone hominid."

Developer Tools

Life After Text Mode: How I Learned to Stop Typing So Much and Love the GUI Again

Developers get caught up in the productive asceticism of the command line and forget about the world outside—3 apps made me rethink my Text Mode lifestyle.

Mobile Apps

Super Fast Numeric Input with HTML Ranges – Part 3

Part three of a three-part series that covers crafting a custom decimal picker to improve the experience of entering decimal numbers into a mobile web app.

Mobile Apps

Super-fast Numeric Input with HTML Ranges – Part 2

Part two of a three-part series that reviews crafting a custom decimal picker to improve the experience of entering decimal numbers into a mobile web app.

Mobile Apps

Super-fast Numeric Input with HTML Ranges – Part 1

This three-part series covers how my team crafted a custom decimal picker to improve the experience of entering decimal numbers into a mobile web app.

Developer Tools

Reduce Cognitive Overhead by Automating with GNU Make

Make is boring, and omnipresent. Because it integrates with whatever shell you're using, it's easy to write a thin wrapper around an existing toolchain.

Personal Optimization

Task Management & Clearer Thinking with MindNode and OmniFocus

I've tried a slew of task management tools to stay focused, productive, and sane at work. MindNode and OmniFocus are the two that have stuck.

Development Practices

Git Confident – Git Best Practices for Joining an Existing Project

By learning to overcommit and branch out in Git, I've been able to contribute changes more confidently without worrying about making mistakes.

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