Mattie Behrens on Atomic Spin

Growing as Makers

Building with LEGOs and Building Software for the Future

I've been thinking about how the expertise I gain from building LEGO models is a lot like how I build software effectively at Atomic Object.

The Software Life

Software needs maintenance just like your car does. With proper love and attention, it can serve you well for years to come.

Python

Python has been around a long time. But it has evolved quite a bit since those early days, thanks to type hints and the "typing" module.

Developer Tools

Creating and using lots of SSH keys can be really easy to manage with a simple key system. Following a few simple principles makes it work.

Developer Tools

We make handling SSH keys on macOS way more complicated than it has to be. Here's a simple, safe way to create and use them.

TypeScript

Demystify the creation of a TypeScript NPM package by starting from the absolute minimum amount of code and building up a complete importable module.

TypeScript

You have no choice but to deal with optional things and "undefined" in JavaScript, but the great news is, there are many tools to deal with them.

JavaScript

Monorepos are great, but watching and rebuilding them is a complicated problem. turbotree helps make it a lot easier.

JavaScript

It's way too common to try to put together query strings using JavaScript's template strings. Thankfully, there's an easy and much better way.

DevOps & System Admin.

Color can help humans pick out useful information in a sea of output. Adding color to your shell scripts portably is actually pretty easy.

TypeScript

It's easy to use z.infer to get the output type of a Zod validator. But what if you have a generic validator that depends on another type?

Development Practices

So you have a bunch of Git repositories for individual projects and you want to organize them together into a monorepo. What can you do?