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.
Developer Tools • Dec 13, 2017 Git Good: Improve Your Version Control Skills Git is a powerful tool with many features and areas for personal optimization. It just makes sense to spend the time mastering it.
