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React / Redux • Dec 30, 2018

Three React Native Libraries I Can’t Live Without

I found React Navigation, React Native Push Notification, and React Native SVG indispensable during my last project, and I plan to use them on many more.

Project & Team Management • Dec 29, 2018

Your Backlog Isn’t a To-Do List – It’s Self-fulfilling Prophecy of Success or Failure

Good software can only be built via a well-run project — starting with a great backlog that helps you refine the big-picture plan and stay on track.

Web Apps • Dec 28, 2018

Improve Your App with CSS in JavaScript

CSS-in-JS libraries can improve both your developer and user experiences. Here's how.

Development Practices • Dec 27, 2018

Four Steps for Inheriting a Codebase

Taking over an existing software project can be a challenge. In this post I cover a few steps to make the process easier.

UX/Design Techniques • Dec 26, 2018

Using “Last Thursdays” to Discuss Exceptions with Users

When you teach a user not to think about exceptions as "bad," they're eager to share all the alternative ways that similar tasks need to be performed.

Personal Optimization • Dec 23, 2018

A Love Letter to Slack (or, My Favorite Slack Features)

You've been the perfect addition to my workflow, Slack, and I appreciate all you have to offer.

Personal Optimization • Dec 22, 2018

Are You in a Relationship with Your Job?

Do you love your job? What would that even mean? What if we considered our work in the same light as other relationships in our lives?

Planning Your Project • Dec 21, 2018

Is Your New Feature Worth It?

Don't let your excitement overtake and derail your great product. Refine it, and add new features, but only when they make sense.

UX/Design Tools • Dec 20, 2018

A Simple Way To Quickly Animate SVGs with Vivus.js

Vivus is a great tool that can quickly combine illustrations and animation. It will take your SVG and animate in the strokes as if someone were drawing it.

Planning Your Project • Dec 19, 2018

What Software Design Is & How it Makes Software Much, Much Better

With good software design, applications are built with purpose, backed by buy-in from users, and supported by a plan for continuous improvement.

Project & Team Management • Dec 18, 2018

Five Reasons You’ll Be Asked to Cancel Sprint Retros – and Why to Say No

The retro is seems like the first meeting to get cut from the normal sprint cadence. But don't give it up! Everybody benefits, whether they know it or not.

Developer Tools • Dec 17, 2018

Avoid Git Peril with –force-with-lease

--force-with-lease checks that the remote branch is in the state that we expect. If there are upstream changes your local repository doesn't know about, the push will be rejected.