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Personal Optimization • Sep 23, 2018

On Taking a Step Back: Gracefully Managing Your Commitments When Everything is a Little Too Much

It’s frustrating when you can't keep up with commitments. Self-grace, communication, and humility can go a long way when it feels like things are falling apart.

Personal Optimization • Sep 22, 2018

Unpacking the Confidence Code, Part 4 – Instilling Confidence in Others

While each of us may begin with a certain amount confidence due to our gender, genetics, and nurture, anyone’s confidence levels can increase.

Project & Team Management • Sep 21, 2018

A People Management Perspective on Self-Managing Teams

The concept of self-managing teams gained a new, people management dimension after I read "The One Thing You Need to Know" by Marcus Buckingham.

Development Practices • Sep 20, 2018

Learn by Linting: Using Linters to Help Learn Programming Languages

I wanted to learn how to write idiomatic Ruby. Using a linter that was able to recognize pitfalls and encourage me to correct them has been wonderful.

Web Apps • Sep 19, 2018

Reactive Programming: A Timed Popup Component with RxJS

How to use use RXJS's operators (debounce, merge, map, switchmap) in Angular to display a popup notification timed for a specified interval.

Development Practices • Sep 17, 2018

Building a Fake API for Testing & Development

A discussion of a few different options for dealing with an external integration, and why I think a custom, fake API implementation is the way to go.

Exploratory Testing • Sep 16, 2018

More Ways to Test – Travel-Inspired Bugs

Does your website or app assume that the user has the same knowledge you do? Does it have outbound links that cause more trouble than they're worth?

Personal Optimization • Sep 15, 2018

Unpacking the Confidence Code, Part 3 – Defining Confidence

If you ask scientists and academics to define "optimism", you’ll get a fairly consistent answer. The same goes other basic qualities– but not confidence.

Project & Team Management • Sep 14, 2018

Creating Psychological Safety Leads to Happy Teams

I can't always control who's on my team, but as team lead, I do have the ability to change group norms and make sure everyone feels heard and secure.

TypeScript • Sep 13, 2018

Creating a Drag-and-Drop File Uploader with React & TypeScript

We built our drag-and-drop uploader by tracking state within the component to determine if the user is dragging, and using that to trigger UI changes.

TypeScript • Sep 10, 2018

Correctly Managing Concurrency in JavaScript

Two easy utilities for managing JavaScript concurrency: ensure that only one instance of a process is running, and protect critical sections of code.

Growing as Makers • Sep 09, 2018

Four Ways to Contribute as a Junior Developer

When you're a junior developer surrounded by smart, experienced people, it’s easy to feel like you don't have much to contribute. But that's not true.