Laura Robb on Atomic Spin

Setting Up a Work Study Group for AWS Certification

Why and how did we study for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam as a group? How did it work out, and what might we do differently next time?

.NET / WPF

Shareable and Customizable SVG Resources in WPF

Adding SVG resources to a WPF application seems simple, but there are a few steps you’ll need to take to ensure your resources are shareable and customizable.

Development Practices

Four Techniques for Making Sense of Legacy Code

Are you faced with the task of reading, understanding, or even rewriting legacy code? If so, these methods may help you in your quest!

React / Redux

Loading States in React Components Using TypeScript’s Discriminated Unions

By using discriminated unions in TypeScript to define the props for a React component, we can cleanly handle loading states in our React components.

Developer Tools

Enable Specific API Versions When Starting Minikube

Minikube can be started with many configuration options set. If you're struggling to enable a specific API version in your cluster, look no further!

TypeScript

Enforcing Compile-Time Permission Checking with TypeScript Brands

Checking user permissions is vital to any app with different roles and access. Use TypeScript branded types to enforce permission checks during development.

Web Apps

Add Padding to Embedded SVGs for svg-pan-zoom Controls Using JavaScript

This method of modifying the SVGs was a pretty convenient solution for us to get the control icons to appear how we wanted.

Personal Optimization

A Love Letter to Slack (or, My Favorite Slack Features)

You've been the perfect addition to my workflow, Slack, and I appreciate all you have to offer.

React / Redux

CSS-Animated Countdown Timer with React and TypeScript

How to implement a countdown timer using React, TypeScript, and CSS animations. The timer shows the seconds, and a circle visualizes the time remaining.

Growing as Makers

Unpacking the Confidence Code, Part 5 – Growing in Confidence

We’ve come to see the theory of failing fast as the ideal paradigm for building female confidence. No longer do we need to try to get everything right.

Personal Optimization

Unpacking the Confidence Code, Part 3 – Defining Confidence

If you ask scientists and academics to define "optimism", you’ll get a fairly consistent answer. The same goes other basic qualities– but not confidence.

TypeScript

Creating a Drag-and-Drop File Uploader with React & TypeScript

We built our drag-and-drop uploader by tracking state within the component to determine if the user is dragging, and using that to trigger UI changes.

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