Matt Soto on Atomic Spin

Culture

Build an Environment that Allows Mistakes

This isn't about removing all consequences from mistakes. It's about mitigating them as best you can, so that the culture stays healthy.

Development Practices

Developers often talk about the concept of points in agile software development. Why does everyone care so much?

Project & Team Management

You can directly measure the results of new software features, but what does addressing technical debt accomplish?

Growing as Makers

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

I've noticed a particular organizational pattern that really bothers me because of how pervasive and dysfunctional it is: Hero Syndrome.

Growing as Makers

Whether you're at a consultancy or a product company, from development to management, you have a hidden superpower: saying no.

Development Practices

Processors are optimized to work with floating-point numbers, so they are typically supported. But, they come with a limitation: precision.

Development Practices

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

Here's why you should stop using dotenv for node property management and start using dotenv-defaults instead.

Growing as Makers

In the end, if you ensured that the problem was addressed, you were a good leader, no matter how you did it.

Developer Tools

Go deeper and customize PlantUML options. A whole host of customization options can tailor your diagram to your specific use case.

Growing as Makers

We talk a lot about the costs of making mistakes, but something nobody seems to talk about is the cost of avoiding mistakes.