Development Practices What’s the “Points” of Agile, Anyway? Developers often talk about the concept of points in agile software development. Why does everyone care so much?
Project & Team Management Don’t Let Technical Debt Ruin Your Project You can directly measure the results of new software features, but what does addressing technical debt accomplish?
Growing as Makers Consultants: Here’s How You Optimize for Client Value I've had a lot of discussions recently, making sure that we, as software consultants, use our time to optimize for client value.
Project & Team Management Don’t Be a Hero: Harness the Power of Teamwork Instead I've noticed a particular organizational pattern that really bothers me because of how pervasive and dysfunctional it is: Hero Syndrome.
Growing as Makers Saying “No” is a Powerful Tool Whether you're at a consultancy or a product company, from development to management, you have a hidden superpower: saying no.
Development Practices Stop Using Floating-Point Numbers to Store Money Processors are optimized to work with floating-point numbers, so they are typically supported. But, they come with a limitation: precision.
Development Practices To Squash or Not to Squash: The Merge Debate You're finally ready to merge that pull request into your develop branch. Do you do a standard merge commit? Or do you squash merge?
Development Practices Stop Using dotenv for Your Node Property Management Here's why you should stop using dotenv for node property management and start using dotenv-defaults instead.
Growing as Makers What Does Being a Good Leader Mean? Making Life Easier for Your Team In the end, if you ensured that the problem was addressed, you were a good leader, no matter how you did it.
Developer Tools Diving Deeper into PlantUML: Customization Options Go deeper and customize PlantUML options. A whole host of customization options can tailor your diagram to your specific use case.
Growing as Makers Making Mistakes Made Me the Developer I Am Today We talk a lot about the costs of making mistakes, but something nobody seems to talk about is the cost of avoiding mistakes.
Development Developers: Be Careful How You Use Metrics We often apply metrics to job performance. When it comes to software development, however, this is surprisingly complicated.
