Atomic Spin

Culture • Aug 28, 2015

‘Holding Space’ for Each Other at Work

Holding space means being supportive without stepping in and taking over. It means coming alongside someone, making time to listen.

Development Practices • Aug 27, 2015

5 Questions to Ask When Bringing in Third-Party Code

Selecting libraries is not a task to be taken lightly. The right one can offer a lot of value, but wrong one can create a lot of pain.

Ember.js • Aug 26, 2015

Side-Load Like a Pro with Ember-RESTless

Side-loading is an efficient way for a developer to pull multiple pieces of relevant JSON data from a single HTTP request in a client-server implementation.

Software Science • Aug 25, 2015

Thinking in Aggregates – Moving Beyond the Singular

Rather than thinking in terms of individual particulars, we can accomplish a lot more by working with aggregates of smaller ideas.

Ember.js • Aug 24, 2015

10 Steps for Ramping into Ember.js Quickly

Aspiring Ember developers can follow the 10 steps I lay out in this blog post to quickly get familiar with Ember.js.

Developer Tools • Aug 23, 2015

Fuzz Testing with afl-fuzz (American Fuzzy Lop)

On using Google's American Fuzzy Lop for fuzz testing.

Growing as Makers • Aug 21, 2015

Consultancies: The Smart First Job for Software Developers

Working at a consultancy is the best way to jumpstart your career as a software developer.

UX/Design Techniques • Aug 20, 2015

Easy Design & Front-End Practices for Improving Accessibility

Five steps you can take to address common web accessibility problems.

Embedded Systems • Aug 19, 2015

5 Steps to Getting Started with Embedded Programing

"How do I learn embedded systems programming?" is like asking, "How do I learn development?" but in an alternate universe where 128k is still a lot of RAM.

Development Practices • Aug 18, 2015

You’ve Gotta Pick Up the Ducky

Rubber duck debugging helps you solve problems by identifying issues that are not apparent or increasing your understanding of a system.

iOS / OS X • Aug 17, 2015

Continuous Validation for Mobile User Interfaces in iOS

We can automate testing so that our iOS user interface looks the way we expect by taking a screenshot of every view and composing them into a document.

Objective-C • Aug 15, 2015

Objection Turns 4, Gets 1,000th Follower

Objection is a dependency injection framework for Objective-C that I wrote in one day 2011 while working on an iOS project.