Eric Shull on Atomic Spin

Plays Well with Others – Lessons in Reusable Tooling

Programs must be able to work together, to talk and listen to one another, whether it's pipes, file descriptors, HTTP, or plain old TCP.

Growing as Makers

Doodles with Meaning – The Art of Sketchnoting

If you've ever sat down at a presentation and filled your notebook with meaningless doodles instead of presentation content, then sketchnoting is for you.

Personal Optimization

The Proper Care & Feeding of Your Mental Story Machine

Humans are story machines, and those stories require proper feeding to grow.

Web Apps

Graduating from CoffeeScript to LiveScript

LiveScript offers several advantages over vanilla CoffeeScript — accessor functions, partial functions, function composition, and cascades.

Project & Team Management

Considering a New Methodology? First, Understand the Question

We often fall into the trap of implementing solutions before understanding the question we are trying to answer.

Web Apps

Saving Browser-based SVGs as Images

SVG vector images drawn in the browser can be rasterized as PNG images using JavaScript, the canvas element, and a couple of data URIs.

Developer Tools

Adventures in Pair Programming – 2 Devs, 3 Computers

Using tools that get out of our way makes a big difference. Synergy is a nice addition to our pair programming toolkit.

Personal Optimization

Mental Math Tricks — Find the Day of the Week a Given Date Falls On

It's easy to find the day of the week that a given date falls on if you're willing to do a little memorization and arithmetic.

Personal Optimization

Hackers & Writers – Practicing the Non-Linear Arts

I grew up writing both stories and code, but it took me a long time to figure out just how similar they are.

Web Apps

D3 is for Drawing – JavaScript Data Visualization with D3.js

D3.js is an excellent JavaScript data visualization library that works closely with in-browser SVG capabilities.

Personal Optimization

How to Automate Your Human – Forming Good Development Habits

Humans come with their own built-in automation system called "habit formation." Here's how I changed one of my development habits for the better using a small script and a little b

Developer Tools

An Introduction to Scripting Tmux Key Bindings

Scripting Tmux is a very powerful addition to your command line toolset. Here's how to add a Tmux key binding to open the file name under the cursor.

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