Reading and Writing a Private Google Sheet Programmatically

Google Sheets is amazing — a free, publicly accessible spreadsheet available to anyone with an Internet connection. With its expressive (if a bit obtuse) formula programming language and its ease of distribution, it’s not surprising that Google Sheets is a favorite component of many cloud automations. Even here at Atomic, where we have easy access […]

Using WebSockets in AWS to Stream DynamoDB Updates

A recent project of mine was potentially in need of a WebSocket API, and I wanted to investigate how to set up a WebSocket API in the AWS ecosystem. Extending the infrastructure from my previous DynamoDB setup to stream updates to a client via WebSockets was a straightforward problem to solve. I updated the Github […]

Creating and Using a Local NuGet Package

Found yourself on a project where you need to create and test NuGet packages? This process can be stressful and slow if you wait until you’ve published the NuGet package on the web to use it. A great way to avoid this issue and create a faster feedback loop is to create a local NuGet […]

Handling Audio Sessions with Bluetooth in Swift for iOS

When creating an iOS app that deals with audio, it’s important to configure and handle audio sessions properly. Along with setting up an audio session, there are some extra steps required to properly support Bluetooth audio. 1. Configuring Audio Sessions By default, audio sessions support audio playback but not audio recording. If your app supports […]

How to Use TypeORM with Webpack

TypeORM is a great option if you are looking for an ORM to use on a Node project. However, if you use Webpack to bundle your backend code, you may face some issues when trying to integrate TypeORM into your project. The Problem After you’ve integrated TypeORM into your project, you should have no problem […]

Improve Performance Using SQL Functions in Postgres

We’ve all hit that point on a project: features are working, and you’re starting to really expand the application’s capabilities, but the expansion is steadily leading to slower performance. It’s time for some refactoring around your database interactions Maybe the queries run by the application have become more and more complex. Maybe there are things […]

How to Create Your Own React Carousel

Finding a pre-made carousel component that fits well with your application can be a challenge. Even if you can customize the look and feel, an old jQuery-based component will stick out like a sore thumb in your React application. Implementing your own carousel is not hard, and it can save you from adding more dependencies […]

Drawing Thousands of Polylines via Google Maps API V3

My team is working on an Electron app built with Node that allows route plotting via Google Maps API V3. The goal was to display routes on a nationwide view, drawing more than 500,000 polylines. At the beginning of this task, the app would run out of memory trying to plot lines in a view […]

Want Absolute Imports in React Native? Just Add a Little JSON

If you’ve spent any time working with React Native, you’ve probably run into a peculiar quirk where you’re seemingly forced to use relative imports in all of your source files. Things start to look a bit like this: import {Thing} from "../../../../core/thing"; import {Foo} from "../../foo"; It all quickly becomes unwieldy because it requires you […]

A Simple Approach to Complicated Database Defaults

Database tables rarely stay the same over the course of a project. We often need to add tables, add or rename columns, or break up a table to support evolving project demands or updated domain modeling. Migrating existing data correctly is not always trivial. Here are two scenarios I ran into recently on a project […]

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