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Extracurricular Activities • Dec 22, 2017

Stranger Things Alphabet Wall, Part 2: MQTT in the Upside Down

How to set up MQTT for Wifi connectivity on your ESP8266-driven "Stranger Things" Alphabet Wall, connect it to an MQTT broker, and put together a front-end.

Extracurricular Activities • Dec 21, 2017

Make Your Own “Stranger Things” Alphabet Wall

How to make your own "Stranger Things" Alphabet Wall, using an ESP8266, Neopixel LEDs, craft supplies, Eggos, some C code, and a little bit of time.

Developer Tools • Dec 20, 2017

Need to Install Tools on Windows? Use Scoop

Scoop feels like Homebrew for Windows. It can also fetch and install packages from the Internet to get you up and running with open-source tools.

Project & Team Management • Dec 20, 2017

The Guide to Being a Pessimistic Designer

The world needs more pessimistic designers. Here's how you can say "no" when it needs saying, while making your team and project stronger.

Web Apps • Dec 19, 2017

Type Check Your Polyglot Dictionary with TypeScript

Large translation dictionaries like Polyglot are difficult to manage. Type check them with TypeScript to speed up development.

Developer Tools • Dec 18, 2017

Remote File Editing Over SSH with Visual Studio Code

The Remote VSCode allows you to easily navigate using your shell and edit multiple files simultaneously using Visual Studio Code's tabs.

Web Apps • Dec 18, 2017

How to Console Yourself through JavaScript Debugging

An overview of the JavaScript debugging tools offered by the console api. There’s a lot of good functionality beyond the tried and true console.log.

Atomic Accelerator • Dec 17, 2017

Atomic Games 2017 – Now with Real-Time Strategy!

We really enjoyed hosting our third Atomic Games event in Grand Rapids this year. This post summarizes highlights from the day's competition.

Developer Tools • Dec 16, 2017

Integrating a Visual Git Interface into Your Workflow

I have been using VS code’s git interface, and I have seen an improvement in my productivity. Here are some benefits to using a GUI in your git workflow.

Web Apps • Dec 15, 2017

Phoenix Framework Support and Why Ruby on Rails Still Works

Phoenix framework is a functional solution for traditional model-template-view applications. It can replace Ruby on Rails—but at a cost.

Developer Tools, iOS / OS X • Dec 14, 2017

Swift Tool Belt, Part 5: Adding a Gradient UIButton

A class derived from UIButton that will draw your button with a gradient background in Swift, using Xcode’s Interface Builder.

Developer Tools • Dec 13, 2017

Chrome Caching in CircleCI

Dependency caching in CircleCI can both decrease the time it takes to run your tests and also make the tests less dependent on external sources.