John Ruble on Atomic Spin

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.

Growing as Makers

Programming Exercises to Stretch your Noodle

Three great sources of free programming exercises: Project Euler, CodeEval, and Exercism.io.

Web Apps

A Thin Slice of the Full Stack

A tour of a full-stack TDD web development workflow with Ruby on Rails and Ember.js.

John Ruble

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