Personal Optimization • Feb 05, 2022 The Surprising Way AirPods Helped Me Adjust to Hearing Loss I have high-frequency hearing loss that makes the world sound muffled. But, I've found that AirPods have been a helpful tool.
Growing as Makers • Feb 04, 2022 5 Podcasts That Help Make Me a Better Software Consultant I love podcasts. Here are some favorites that help me provide great consulting to our clients in the pre-project consulting phase.
Project & Team Management • Feb 03, 2022 5 Steps to a Successful Software Project Virtual Demo For anyone who's new to giving a virtual demo or who feels they could use a few tips, here are five easy-to-follow steps for demo preparation.
Exploratory Testing • Feb 02, 2022 Exploratory Testing: Take a Walk with the Data Taking a tour of the data as it moves through the system can be useful and can highlight other areas that might be worth an exploratory testing tour.
Developer Tools • Feb 01, 2022 The Best Tool for Parsing Photoshop Files in Javascript Recently, I spent some time looking through more than 15 libraries to find a viable option for parsing and generating PSD files. My favorite option: ag-psd.
React Native • Jan 31, 2022 A Starter’s Guide to the Yelp API for Your React Native App The Yelp API gives you access to information about millions of businesses for your React Native app. Learn how to make requests with the Yelp API.
Culture • Jan 30, 2022 What Makes a Good Job? Feeling Invested in the Company’s Success What makes a good job? For me, it means working for a company that you like enough that you feel invested in that company succeeding.
Growing as Makers • Jan 29, 2022 Attention, and Why I’m Rethinking Managerial Generosity I've been inspired to change the way I interact with colleagues by a quote from Simone Weil: “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
The Software Life • Jan 28, 2022 macOS Users: How to Switch to GNU Compiler Collection I'll show new macOS users with a Linux background how to switch to using GNU Compiler Collection instead of the Clang compiler.
Developer Tools • Jan 27, 2022 Essential Tools for New Developers As new developers, we need all the help we can get. Offloading some of our workload to the right developer tools and applications is important.
React / Redux • Jan 26, 2022 How to Fire an Event-Driven GraphQL Query with Apollo Client for React If you need to be able to fire a GraphQL query when an event occurs, look no further than Apollo Client’s useLazyQuery hook.
UX/Design Practices • Jan 25, 2022 Adventures in Minimum Viable Product: A Backpack After looping my elastic cord through the web tabs, I now had something one step above a minimal viable product of a backpack.