Atomic Spin

Project & Team Management • Oct 30, 2020

How to Build Consensus When Your Team Disagrees on Something Crucial

What sets high-performing teams apart is how they approach disagreements. Use them as an opportunity to align, reflect, and commit to an outcome as a team.

Developer Tools • Oct 29, 2020

Integrating ESLint into an Existing Codebase

Introducing ESLint to a large, still-in-progress codebase can be a pain, so here are three approaches that will help make it a little bit easier.

Web Apps • Oct 28, 2020

How to Use a List of Results from One Splunk Panel in Another

Setting and using tokens in Splunk is generally straightforward. But what if you want to use a list of results from one panel in another panel?

UX/Design Practices • Oct 27, 2020

3 Ways to Remove Gender Bias from Early UX Design Phases

What we say about users often includes things like their name, age, and gender. But these bring stereotypes that keep us from being inclusive.

Developer Tools • Oct 26, 2020

Better Remote Pairing with Keycastr and Presentify

I’ve added a couple more tools to my belt when remote pairing — Presentify for screen scribbling and Keycastr for keystroke visualization.

React / Redux • Oct 25, 2020

Creating Type-Safe Paths for Formik Forms

How to create a lightweight wrapper around Formik's useField hook to provide a more type-safe way to specify which field a user input is tied to.

DevOps & System Admin. • Oct 24, 2020

AWS Cloudwatch and PagerDuty Integration

How to integrate PagerDuty with AWS Cloudwatch. They're very powerful tools to use in unison with each other.

React / Redux • Oct 23, 2020

Why I Still Use Redux for Global State Management on React Projects

With the introduction of the context API, Redux may seem pointless. Here are a few reasons why I don't think that's the case.

Project & Team Management • Oct 22, 2020

Joining a New Project? Eliminate the Unknowns

It's important to orient yourself as you get up to speed on a new project. Here are three ways to eliminate unknowns and steady yourself as you learn.

Development Practices • Oct 21, 2020

Onomatopoeia and Code Readability

In some code patterns, the structure resembles its intent. This sort of code tends to be easier to scan and understand quickly.

DevOps & System Admin. • Oct 20, 2020

Migrating Data Structures in DynamoDB

The key patterns my team uses to migrate data structures in DynamoDB, plus a demonstration of some basic usages in a NodeJS environment.

Growing as Makers • Oct 19, 2020

Stop Trying to Optimize Your New Developers!

New developers can only learn so many things at once, and they need to tackle high-value skills first. Optimizing their workflow can — and should! — wait.