Atomic Spin

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.

UX/Design Techniques • Feb 02, 2020

UX Wins & Sins: HidrateSpark 3

The main value proposition of the HidrateSpark is that it glows to encourage sipping. And it's great... until the novelty wears off.

UX & Design • Feb 01, 2020

The Importance of an Interface: A Case Study of Simple Bank

An overview of Simple bank's wonderful online experience.

Personal Optimization • Jan 31, 2020

My Project/Product Management Toolkit

After my recent shift into project/product management, I realized my existing toolkit was obsolete. I no longer needed Docker, Git, or Stack Overflow.

Web Apps • Jan 30, 2020

How to Add Custom Functions to a Jest Test Suite

I want easy-to-use, discoverable functions for my Jest test suite. I don't want to change much syntax, and I don't want to import anything.

Developer Tools • Jan 29, 2020

Localhost to Remote in Two Commands

How to use Localtunnel to proxy your localhost to the world.

React / Redux • Jan 28, 2020

Don’t Eject! – Leave your Create React App in the Disc Drive

Ejecting your Create React App has major tradeoffs. Yes, it gives you more choices, but future configurations are time-consuming, expensive, and difficult.