Extracurricular Activities • Jan 11, 2023 Build a MIDI Controller with Me Using Arduino Making your own MIDI controller is a great beginner project, while also providing opportunity for future expansion.
The Software Life • Jan 10, 2023 Desk Job Giving You Neck, Shoulder, and Back Pain? Change Your Habits for Long-Term Relief Here, I'll share some ways to change your working environment to help you relearn your postural habits and patterns of movement.
The Software Life • Jan 09, 2023 Desk Job Giving You Neck, Shoulder and Back Pain? 3 Stretches and Exercises for Short Term Relief Working at a computer means spending hours in postures that create tension and pain Here are a few exercises and stretches that give relief.
Personal Optimization • Jan 07, 2023 Use The Pomodoro Technique To Improve Developer Productivity Developers with managerial duties may have to work in interrupted smaller sessions. This is where the Pomodoro Technique shines.
UX & Design • Jan 06, 2023 How to Use InDesign’s Data Merge Feature to Automate the Creation of Name Tags You can do all sorts of fancy things with the Data Merge feature in InDesign. I used it to automate creating name tags.
The Software Life • Jan 05, 2023 3 Benefits of Storybook-Driven Development Storybook-Driven Development (SDD) is a concept that helps developers create extensible and lightweight UI primitives.
Development Practices • Jan 04, 2023 The Benefits of a Spiking Phase in Agile Development A spiking phase lets everybody working on the project gain a greater understanding of the system as a whole.
Developer Tools • Jan 03, 2023 3 Great Features in JetBrains Rider You May Have Missed The ability to use a conditional breakpoint is just one of the great features in JetBrains Rider that may not be on a new user's radar.
Managing Your Team • Jan 02, 2023 Who’s Next? Keeping Standup Moving on Large Teams Sizing up a team has many challenges, including managing the flow of standups. Here's a collection of ideas to keep things moving.
Personal Optimization • Dec 30, 2022 3 Tips for Creating a Healthy 9-5 Work Lifestyle in Tech In the tech world, we spend a lot of time sitting at our desks. Here are some ways to help create a healthy 9-5 work lifestyle.
Culture • Dec 29, 2022 Breaking Down Employee Blogging, Part 2: Our Publication Process In my previous post, I explained why we pay our software makers to blog daily. In this post, I’ll share each step of the publication process.
Culture • Dec 28, 2022 Breaking Down Employee Blogging, Part 1: Why Bother? As Atomic’s marketing director, one of the questions I’m most often asked is how we get our employees blogging daily about software.
