Jonathan Chaffer on Atomic Spin

Automate Your Daily Routine with Shortcuts

Software developers love building automations. Thanks to Apple’s Shortcuts app, you can build them yourself with little to no coding experience.

Developer Tools

Git Merge vs. Rebase: Which to Use and When

Let's weigh the pros and cons of two popular branch synchronization strategies, Git merge or rebase, and help inform your decision to use one or the other.

Extracurricular Activities

Build an Apple Music to Spotify Converter for Raycast

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to build a Raycast extension that generates a sharable Spotify link based on the currently playing Apple Music track.

Extracurricular Activities

Generative Art: Dive Deeper With Recursion

Learn how to use recursion to create infinitely complex and beautiful pieces of generative art with just a few lines of code.

Personal Optimization

Power Editing: Keep Your Hands on the Keyboard

Here are four tips, from keyboard shortcuts to command palettes, that will keep your hands on the keyboard and make you a power editor.

Python

Learn How to Make Generative Art: From Zero to random()

Generative art is a unique intersection of computer science and visual art. In this post, you'll learn how to get started in just a few minutes.

Developer Tools

GitHub Copilot: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

GitHub's new AI-powered pair programmer, GitHub Copilot, provides some time-saving use cases, unfortunate flaws, and interesting implications.

Jonathan Chaffer

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