Nick Keuning on Atomic Spin

Manage Side Effects with an Elm-inspired Redux Middleware

Managing side effects in Redux applications is sometimes complex. I'll introduce a lightweight middleware solution.

Personal Optimization

Create a Great Workflow for Blog Posts with Asciidoctor

I thought combining Asciidoc with other tools would help with authoring blog posts, so I set off to create one using Asciidoctor and Make.

Development Practices

Prevent Frame Buffering with OpenCV

Our theory was that OpenCV was buffering every frame sent by the HTTP stream, and we were seeing the frames come through one at a time

ChatGPT

Port Elmish to Typescript: A Conversation with ChatGPT

Here's how a conversation with ChatGPT helped me figure out how to export Elmish to Typescript in my current software project.

Project & Team Management

Bulleted List: Use This Lo-fi Tool for Backlog Planning

Avoiding backlog management software in the early stages of a project has proved valuable. Here's the low-fi tool I use for backlog planning.

AWS

Extend Keyed Serial Queues to Support Web Concurrency

In my project, we used keyed serial queues to sync our server's set of application files with a currently published manifest.

Development Practices

How to Manage Concurrent Tasks with Keyed Queues

The KeyedSerialTaskQueue is a powerful tool for managing queues of tasks, especially useful when you need to download or process serially.

Prisma

How and When to Use Multiple Prisma Schemas

We need two schemas generating two separate clients that we can use from our project code. The secret sauce is to create two Prisma schemas.

Effective communication

How Your Software Project is Like a Language

In my time at Atomic Object, I've worked on a range of different projects. I've begun thinking of each project as its own language.

Mobile Apps

Customizing Jira with TamperMonkey

I got sick of copy-pasting info back and forth between Jira and Basecamp, so I went looking for ways to automate the process. I settled on TamperMonkey.

Development Practices

Don’t Be Afraid to Reevaluate the Backlog

A month or so into an engagement, we came across a story that took much longer than our estimate suggested. This experience made us reevaluate the backlog.

Platforms & Languages

React Alternatives in 2022

React was a paradigm shift from earlier approaches to building user interfaces, but there are several React alternatives available in 2022.

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