Nick Keuning on Atomic Spin

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.

Web Apps

How to Implement Click Analytics with the Event Capture Phase

Understanding the event capture phase meant we could leave our code untouched and our event listener will fire even if a component stops event propagation.

Ember.js

How to Recursively Delete Foreign Keys in Mirage

Writing up a recursive solution was easier than statically tracking down all of the entity relationships in our Mirage database and deleting them by hand.

Development Practices

Make Better Use of Discriminated Unions in Your Next Typescript Project

Discriminated unions are powerful. I hope this post helps you make better use of a great abstraction in your next Typescript project.

Functional Programming

F# Pipelining vs. Composition

If you’re new to F#, you’ll see both the pipeline and composition operators. Decide which one to use by finding which approach leads to more readable code.

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