Development Practices Even with LLMs, Let’s Pair Together Pair programming hasn’t been made redundant by LLMs. But using the robot sometimes makes human collaboration feel a bit less relevant.
Growing as Makers An Overview of 8 Years of Projects as a Software Consultant It’s been fun to reflect on my 8 years here at Atomic and as a professional. What’s kept me around, though, isn’t the work but the people.
Artificial Intelligence Here’s How I’m “Friction-Maxxing” in a Technical Role As a developer using AI tools, my own friction-maxxing can’t involve cutting AI out of my work entirely. But if I can do things myself, I do.
React Native How to AirDrop a SQLite Database from Your React Native App My development team came up with a solution that takes advantage of the iOS and Android share sheet to let us export our SQLite database.
Project Stories How We Built a Bluetooth Connected Mobile App in 4 Weeks Here's how we prototyped a cross-platform app for tablets meant to find and connect to a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) device in 4 weeks!
Culture Mentorship: It’s Mostly About Being a Friend to Your Coworker A recently-formed mentor-mentee relationship made me realize that so much of what made it successful was that I was a friend to my coworker.
C# Mock a DbContextFactory for Repository Unit Tests in .Net Core In a .Net Core project, if you’re using the DbContextFactory class to create DbContext instances, you may run into problems.
Project & Team Management A Quick Guide for Onboarding New Developers Joining a team in the middle of a project can feel awkward, so I consider these things when faced with onboarding a new developer.
Project & Team Management 3 Tips for Developers Writing Backlog Items It's one thing to execute backlog items and another to be the author of the backlog. Here are a few tips to write better backlog stories.
Personal Optimization Set Up a Rule to Forward Meeting Invitations from Outlook Recently I took advantage of a rules feature in Outlook. Here are the steps to forward meeting invitations from Outlook into Gmail.
Growing as Makers Reflections on 5 Years as a Software Consultant In the last two years, I’ve been part of a much larger team, on a single project, operating as a tech lead.
Project & Team Management 4 Practices That Helped Our Small Development Team Grow Over the last year, my development team has doubled. These four practices can help any small development team grow into a larger one.
