Atomic Spin

Project & Team Management • May 16, 2017

Choosing the Right Release Cadence for Your Project

Release too often, and you risk coming off as frantic and harried. Release too seldom, and you risk appearing inflexible, and unresponsive.

Web Apps • May 15, 2017

Optimizing GraphQL Queries with DataLoader

If you don't optimize your GraphQL queries, you can end up with sending multiple round trips to the database over the course of a single query.

Atomic Accelerator • May 14, 2017

Cell Zero Reflects on Their First Year in the Atomic Accelerator

The members of Cell Zero reflect on their first year and offer advice to future members of the Atomic Accelerator program.

Personal Optimization • May 13, 2017

Emotional Intelligence, Part 4 – Improving Your Self-Awareness

Self-awareness can be uncomfortable, but it empowers us to turn our negative emotions into something positive for everyone.

Culture • May 12, 2017

Creating an Employee Recognition Program Fit for Atomic

Atomic Object has created a peer-based recognition system that honors Atoms for exemplifying our company values and for consistent hard work.

Project & Team Management • May 11, 2017

Get Better Software Estimates by Combining Different Perspectives

There's no silver bullet approach for estimation. But if we attack the problem from several different angles, we'll arrive at a range we can trust.

Developer Tools • May 10, 2017

websocketd – a UNIX Utility for Turning a Script/Utility into a Chart/Animation

websocketd takes the ugly output from a Unix script or utility and turns it into a chart or animation, or even adding a nice interactive UI.

Development Practices • May 09, 2017

Why (and How) Developers Should Care about Design [Video]

Maybe you don't want to pick colors for your application, but you can and you should want to take ownership over the Design of your work.

Ember.js • May 08, 2017

Making Your Ember Application Livable

Three ways I'm applying the idea of Livable Code to my current Ember project: regular expressions, frequent tests, and gradual refactoring.

Personal Optimization • May 07, 2017

Stay Sharp by Standing While You Work

It's possible that using a standing desk will benefit my health in the long term. Regardless, I've noticed a few ways it helps me work better right now.

Extracurricular Activities • May 06, 2017

Four Lessons Learned while Troubleshooting CAN Bus Communication with my Subaru

I started a personal project involving two of my favorite things: cars and software. I've been reminded of a few good troubleshooting lessons along the way.

Developer Tools • May 05, 2017

Running Tests from MacVim in iTerm2 Version 3

An update to an AppleScript script that can be triggered from MacVim to find a specific iTerm2 tab for running focused tests.