Growing as Makers • Sep 30, 2024 Leading When You Aren’t the Leader It’s easy to fall in the trap of “Oh that’s not my job, somebody else can do it.” What really matters is that SOMEONE takes ownership.
UX/Design Techniques • Sep 28, 2024 Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 18 – What’s On Your Radar? "What on your radar?" is a great design thinking icebreaker. You'll gather everyone's general thoughts on a topic and gauge their priorities.
The Software Life • Sep 27, 2024 The Power of the Coffee Walk: Boosting Creativity, Collaboration, and Focus The post-lunch "Coffee Walk" ritual — gathering a small group of coworkers for a 20-minute walk — has unlocked surprising benefits.
Developer Tools • Sep 26, 2024 Why I Prefer WebStorm Over Visual Studio Code for Web Development Both are excellent tools, but I’ve come to prefer WebStorm vs. Visual Studio Code for web development. Read on to find out why.
UX & Design • Sep 25, 2024 Beyond Webflow 101: Pro Tips That Are All Killer, No Filler I watched 10 hours of Webflow 101 tutorials so you don’t have to! Here are essential tips and tricks to start building fast.
Developer Tools • Sep 24, 2024 4 Tips for Software Testing with Playwright My software development team is using Playwright as an end-to-end testing framework for our TypeScript/Svelte project.
UX/Design Practices • Sep 23, 2024 The Magic of Simplicity: Keeping Design Thinking Workshops Energized and Impactful When you emphasize simplicity in a design thinking workshop, you empower your participants to dive in, get creative, and truly collaborate.
UX/Design Techniques • Sep 21, 2024 Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 17 – Alter Egos Brainstorm and explore new ideas by imagining someone else's perspective. Alter Egos is for teams stuck on a problem or generating hum-drum ideas.
Project & Team Management • Sep 20, 2024 Why We Skip Friday Standups (And Other Small Adjustments That Make a Big Difference) Skipping Friday standups might sound like a minor change, but this and other small tweaks have made a big impact on my team's workflow.
Growing as Makers • Sep 19, 2024 Hacking With The Homies: People Like Us Despite what some people may say, coding is for everyone. Let's go Hacking With The Homies, and move toward being examples for ourselves.
Personal Optimization • Sep 18, 2024 Create a Great Workflow for Blog Posts with Asciidoctor I thought combining Asciidoc with other tools would help with authoring blog posts, so I set off to create one using Asciidoctor and Make.
GitHub Actions • Sep 17, 2024 Support Open Source Through GitHub Issues Here are a few tips to effectively interact with GitHub issues and make an impact when contributing to open source projects.
