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TypeScript • Mar 25, 2019

Enforcing Disjoint Unions with TypeScript Conditional Types

TypeScript provides dynamic tools to build thorough types for algebraic set theory. Enforcing disjoint unions is a powerful way to make the system more robust.

Personal Optimization • Mar 24, 2019

Four Lessons I Learned Too Late about Balancing Work and Grad School

Considering enrolling in grad school while working full time? Were I to do it all again, here are four things I wish I'd known earlier.

TypeScript • Mar 23, 2019

Three Guidelines for Using the Functional Module Pattern for TypeScript

If you find yourself getting lost in types or having difficulty trying to share interfaces across the codebase, try the Functional Module Pattern.

UX/Design Techniques • Mar 22, 2019

Engaging Users in Research without Opening Pandora’s Box

How to facilitate focused user testing or research sessions while avoiding the pandora's box of software product feature requests.

Ruby on Rails • Mar 21, 2019

Creating Active Admin Forms for Active Record Models

Active Admin forms based on Active Record models are an easy way to create models with as little or as much customization as your admin portal requires.

News & Events • Mar 19, 2019

“Battle of the Brackets” Supports Kids Sports – and it’s Fun!

Battle of the Brackets is a March Madness event supporting GR8 Sports, Great Kids — a program to help GRPS kids pay to play school sports.

TypeScript • Mar 18, 2019

How We Built a Scrappy Curriculum Editor using VSCode, TypeScript, and AWS Lambda

Our document-driven app needed a great authoring tool. We built one in record time using TypeScript, Visual Studio Code, and AWS Lambda.

Development Practices • Mar 17, 2019

Organize One-Off Task Files with Dated Work Directories

Everyday developer tasks generate a lot of files. Here's an easy way to keep yours organized, and a shell function to help.

Personal Optimization • Mar 16, 2019

Keep Meetings on Track with a Time Timer

Are your meetings running long? Do you feel like your team is getting off in the weeds and not focusing on the important points? Try a Time Timer.

Development Practices • Mar 15, 2019

How Note Taking Makes Me a Better Developer

How the practice of taking notes helps me solve problems as a developer. Plus a few tools that help me capture command-line interactions in my notes.

Personal Optimization • Mar 14, 2019

How I’m Getting a Business Education Without Going to B-School

What started out as an intriguing experiment has already helped me grow. The practices and tools I’m adding to my arsenal will serve me my entire career.

Project & Team Management • Mar 13, 2019

Starting a New Story? Run a Story Workshop to Bring your Team Together

Story workshops are a great addition to the Agile process. Take time to meet and answer the question, "What are we going to build?"