Lauren Ebels on Atomic Spin

Project Stories

Case Study: Treating an ETL as a Software Design Problem

The success of this project didn’t come from choosing the “right” ETL tool; it was about modeling human workflows and historical context.

Development Practices

Over time, I've learned you must delete your code. It's a prescribed burn when your unmanaged codebase gets close to spontaneous combustion.

Project & Team Management

Early-stage project work is delicate. All the code you are writing is in turn shaping that project's long-term success.

Growing as Makers

Great mentorship is a two-way street. In strong mentorship relationships, both mentor and mentee engage with intentionality and trust.

Development Practices

How do you develop a time-efficient, deep comprehension of the code you are reviewing? Let's talk about effective Pull Request review.

Developer Tools

Adding Obsidian to a recent software project created a coherent visual model the team could use for both reference and knowledge transfer.

Exploratory Testing

Here's what I've learned about creating an actionable bug report and why this skill is so vital in a development career.

AI for Developers

Facing a tough programming problem? You have a choice: asking a team member to dive in with you, or firing up ChatGPT for some AI assistance.

Developer Tools

If you are willing to hand off some granular feature control for speed in the user authetication area, Clerk is an especially fantastic tool.

Web Apps

Vercel's advertises itself as "stupidly easy" to deploy. I found it offered more debugging gems with its version tracking features.

UX & Design

One strategy for custom validation is using the Zod transform method to manipulate and validate an entry and customize the error message.

Web Apps

On a recent project, our clients needed a marketing-style website, without a ton of bells and whistles. SvelteKit fit all their requirements.