Nathaniel Gittlen on Atomic Spin

Personal Optimization

Tame JIRA and GitHub Email Spam with Gmail Filters

The sheer volume of messages often makes it impossible to spot truly important ones. Solution? Use Gmail filters so you only see what matters.

The Software Life

While the complexity of tax law might seem daunting, programmers possess exactly the skills needed to navigate tax preparation software.

AI for Developers

Large language models like Claude and GPT captured the public imagination — but they're fundamentally designed to produce average outputs.

The Software Life

As a programmer with a newborn, I've started to notice some striking parallels between how babies learn and how we approach programming.

Growing as Makers

I was asked, "Should I take an online course?" I think your time is better spent on a personal project you can show to potential employers.

TypeScript

Recently, I worked on an Expo app for people who suffer from reduced hand dexterity. I thought: why not set up passwordless authentication?

Evolving the Industry

Microsoft charges you $10 per month to access its code generation tool. However, none of that money goes to the people who wrote the code.

Angular

This is the third in a series on using Angular CDK Overlay to build a custom, accessible select dropdown menu. Today: add keyboard input.

Angular

This is the second in a series on using Angular CDK Overlay to build a select dropdown menu. Here, we'll implement the next steps.

Angular

Angular CDK Overlay is the opposite of using the rigid HTML select element. The CDK Overlay is completely open-ended and customizable.

Developer Tools

For our current project, my software team is building an Angular library that can deploy to npm or be used locally to test components.