John Ruble on Atomic Spin

Ember.js

Use ES2017’s async/await in your Ember Project Today!

After recently using await/async in C#, I looked into whether they're ready for use in JavaScript. Here's how to enable them in an Ember project.

Developer Tools

Custom QUnit Assertions

QUnit makes it easy to write custom assertions that improve the legibility of your tests and their reports. Here's how to log an assertion.

Development Practices

Open Source Basics: NPM Edition

Tips for making changes to third-party dependencies and contributing them upstream, using npm and git—though you can use other languages' packaging systems.

Web Apps

Dad-Hack: Customizing the Baby Monitor with Tampermonkey

Userscripts alter websites on the fly as you visit them. I run userscripts with Tampermonkey for Chrome to customize my baby monitor's web view.

Ember.js

Send HTML Elements to Another DOMension with Ember Wormhole

Here's how we used ember-wormhole to better place dropdown menus in our Ember app.

Developer Tools

Parallelizing Ember Tests Across CI Workers

CircleCI's parallel testing is great, but it was a little tricky to get it working with Ember tests. Here's how we did it.

Development Practices

How to React and Respond to Production Bug Reports

Some tips for handling critical bugs, plus an email template for discussing them with your client.

Web Apps, Ember.js

Embedding Git Revisions in Ember Apps Deployed to Heroku

When deploying an Ember App to Heroku, it takes a little extra work to embed your Git revision hash. Here's how I did it.

Developer Tools

Simulating Poor Network Connectivity on Mac OSX

Loading resources from multiple sources? Here's how to slow them down individually in order to test how your app will behave.

Growing as Makers

Highlights from My First Year at Atomic

My first AO-versary just passed, so this seemed like a great time for a little reflection.

Ember.js

Knowing When Your Ember App is Done Loading

Out of the box, wkhtmltopdf created a PDF our our Ember App's loading screen. Here's how we coaxed it to work.

Developer Tools

A Simple GIF Screencast Workflow for Mac

How I make GIF screen recordings on Mac OSX with Quicktime and ffmpeg.

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