Atomic Spin

Evolving the Industry • May 10, 2015

Pushing Past Logos: Weekend Blitz & Design’s Evolving Role

Designers are taking initiative and questioning the bigger picture to identify the real problem instead of jumping straight into a solution.

Growing as Makers • May 09, 2015

What Being Job Shadowed Taught Me about My Job

As part of the prep for the visit, I had to work out what I liked about my job and how could I sell it to people who didn't know anything about it.

Technical Practices • May 08, 2015

DevOps – Software Delivery Done Correctly

DevOps encourages better communication and collaboration between teams that are usually stuck in their own silos.

iOS / OS X • May 07, 2015

Fixing UI Elements that Float Away

The bug appeared when testing on iOS 7 but not iOS 8, which suggested the root cause might be a floating point error with the constraint layout library.

Developer Tools • May 06, 2015

Creating Man Pages in Markdown with Ronn

Ronn is a fantastic, simple tool that leverages the Markdown you use every day to create man pages for your command-line software.

UX/Design Practices • May 05, 2015

Becoming a Designer in the Real World – Things I Wish I’d Known

A few things I'd tell my 22-year-old self, and a few things I'm still working on today.

Objective-C • May 04, 2015

Bi-directional Data Bindings in ReactiveCocoa with RACChannel

Using RACChannel and RACChannelTerminal to execute bi-directional data binding in ReactiveCocoa for Objective-C.

Extracurricular Activities • May 03, 2015

Building an Infinite Procedurally-Generated World

To build our terrain, we need something better than just randomly selecting a tile for each set of coordinates.

Extracurricular Activities • May 02, 2015

Spread Your Wings and Stop (Exclusively) Using Arduino

Embedded systems for hobbyists is a lot larger than the world of Arduino. New and interesting projects will open up to you once you explore other platforms.

Web Apps • May 01, 2015

What “Semantic” Markup Really Means

A good semantic model cuts across a single layer of abstraction. If two things have the same structure and info hierarchy, they should share a CSS class.

Project & Team Management • Apr 30, 2015

Keeping Your Large Development Team Efficient

As teams grow, it becomes increasingly difficult to be a part of every conversation and every decision. So don't try.

Ruby on Rails • Apr 29, 2015

Managing Complex Permissions in CanCanCan for Rails

Simple example of expressing and encapsulating more complex permissions than CanCan's base syntax accounts for.