Growing as Makers Why You Shouldn’t Go Into Management (Yet) Building technical skills can supercharge your management capabilities. Learn why you should consider staying in the trenches longer.
Development Practices Duct Tape Your Problems Away with Patch-Package The tool patch-package gives you a super easy way to create and apply your own small patch to an npm library.
React / Redux Grouped Stacked Bar Charts with Recharts: Unveiling Snacking Patterns Learn how to create grouped stacked bar charts with Recharts. We'll walk through an example without any extra downloads or fancy CSS.
Project & Team Management How to Save Brainpower on a Multi-Repo Project in VS Code Here, you'll learn how to customize VS Code colors for different workspaces. But, first, let's start with the why.
Growing as Makers Keep an Emergency Supply of Warm Fuzzy Feelings in a Nice Words Document My Nice Words file is where I put every kind remark my colleagues and clients have made about me or my work.
Project & Team Management Leaders: Use Mini-Projects to Delegate Better Writing a mini-project doesn’t have to be time-consuming; the goal is to delegate and let someone else run with it.
Culture Bring Your Baby to Work: An Atomic Parent Experiment My son Toby and I were the pilot participants in a new Bring Your Atomic Baby To Work program. We’re hoping to expand our support for working parents.
Project & Team Management Leading a Team: Are You in Charge or Just in Control? There’s more to great leadership than bossing people around. Let’s take a closer look at what "in charge" means, in particular.
Development Practices How to Prepare for a Product Launch, Part 3: What Will You Do? Your team will be stronger for it if you can discuss the problems that do come up with a sense of grace and an eye for improvement rather than shame.
Development Practices How to Prepare for a Product Launch, Part 2: How Will You Know? So you’re staring down a big product launch. Instead of watching your [unit] tests fail, how might you monitor the way your launch issues manifest?
Development Practices How to Prepare for a Product Launch, Part 1: What Could Go Wrong? If you need to quell your nerves, start by making your best assessment of the types of issues that could come up after the product launch.
Platforms & Languages FaunaDB: A Consultant’s Profile FaunaDB was a great fit for our scrappy, fast-turnover, greenfield project. This post breaks down the developer-facing features we loved, and a few cons.
