Kendra Haan on Atomic Spin

AI for Developers

My First Agentic Project: The Blank Page Was the Hardest Part

I expected my first project using agentic development to feel smooth and easy. But when I started, I had more questions than answers.

Artificial Intelligence

At Merge 2026, the tone felt different than in past years. AI wasn’t a future possibility but a reality of the way we work now.

Personal Optimization

I’ll walk through how I built a simple birthday bot using Google Sheets as the data source and Slack API for message delivery.

Test Driven Development

Snapshot testing let my software development team build a safety net that let us move fast without sacrificing confidence.

The Software Life

Here are a few strategies that enhance engagement, keep me learning and growing as a developer, even during the summer slump.

Developer Tools

Smart tools cut out the noise. They eliminate those tiny moments of friction that interrupt your flow and your focus.

Project & Team Management

If you ever feel like you are getting bogged down in the Swamp of Sadness on a development project, here are a few tips.

C & C++

I like to stay sharp and expand my skills with hobby projects, so I’ve been playing with a new microcontroller, the ESP8266 ESP-12E.

To facilitate learning C#, I created a Typescript to C# cheatsheet to help map commonly-used TypeScript concepts to their C# counterparts.

Growing as Makers

When building software, we are constantly faced with decisions and trade-offs. Don't let perfectionism stand in your way.

Prisma

On a recent project, we chose to migrate data from an existing Amazon Neptune graph database to an Amazon RDS PostgreSQL relational database.