Atomic Spin

Growing as Makers • Feb 14, 2020

Atomic Tech Lead 2020 Learning Interests

What happens when the tech leads at Atomic get together to share professional development interests and brainstorm opportunities for 2020?

Developer Tools • Feb 13, 2020

Command Line Fuzzy Find with fzf

With a few integrations and customizations, Fzf can help you bring fuzzy find to the command line and every part of your workflow.

Ember.js • Feb 12, 2020

Three Reasons to Switch to Angle Bracket Syntax in Ember Octane

Ember's new angle bracket syntax improves readability for rendering components in Handlebars templates. Here are three excellent reasons to make the switch.

Development Practices • Feb 11, 2020

How to Develop Alone (without Making an Enormous Mess)

Force yourself to step back and look at the bigger picture from time to time. If you can’t get other people’s perspectives, try to get some distance.

Developer Tools • Feb 10, 2020

A Beginners Guide to htop for Process Management

htop's color-coded display makes it easy to understand system status at a glance and gives you the power to manage processes with a single keystroke.

Growing as Makers • Feb 09, 2020

Professional Development Goals for Grumpy Old Developers

It can be challenging to come up with meaningful professional development goals as you get further into your career. Here are three tips to help!

UX/Design Tools • Feb 08, 2020

A Designer’s Guide to Scraping Data from HTML Pages with Artoo

Artoo is a neat little web scraper that will let you target data on a webpage and return only the data your interested in.

Developer Tools • Feb 07, 2020

Hybrid Task and Project Management with Asana

A high level summary of the task / project management software, Asana.

UX/Design Tools • Feb 06, 2020

Sketching Apps for iPad: Paper vs Procreate vs Affinity Designer

Only some sketching apps have digital export. So which is the best: Paper, Procreate, or Affinity Designer? It depends on what your goals are.

Kotlin • Feb 05, 2020

Flexbox for Android – Creating a CenterFlowAdapter with FlexboxLayoutManager

GridLayoutManager for RecyclerView is limited, so it would be nice if Android had something like flexbox. Good news: it does! Here's how you can utilize it.

Planning Your Project • Feb 04, 2020

Don’t Pay Consultants to be ‘Yes-People’

A consultant's job is to get your idea to the next level. They can't do that without a little pessimism and a lot of hard questions.

DevOps & System Admin. • Feb 03, 2020

LocalStack + Terraform + CircleCI for Lambda without AWS

Can you provision, develop, and test your lambda functions without access to AWS? We're doing it by combining LocalStack, Terraform, and CircleCI.