Matt Soto on Atomic Spin

Platforms & Languages

Working in Kotlin: Waiting Around with Coroutines

For part 2 of this Kotlin series, let's talk about waiting. Kotlin's coroutines let us write that waiting as ordinary-looking function calls.

Platforms & Languages

Kotlin is fully interoperable with Java. It literally compiles to the same bytecode that Java does, down to outputting the same .class files.

AI for Developers

AI coding tools are getting wildly useful. You might think that if AI can write code, architecture matters less. I think the opposite's true.

Culture

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.