AI for Developers • May 18, 2026 Don’t AI Everything: Deterministic vs. Variable Outcomes in My Claude Skill Not everything needs to be AI-powered. I recently learned this while writing a Claude skill paired with the Claude in Chrome extension.
Extracurricular Activities • May 17, 2026 Your Hobbies Should Inspire Your Growth as a Developer Framing a new tool or technology within a project tied to one of your hobbies or interests makes the process feel like natural exploration.
Growing as Makers • May 16, 2026 An Overview of 8 Years of Projects as a Software Consultant It’s been fun to reflect on my 8 years here at Atomic and as a professional. What’s kept me around, though, isn’t the work but the people.
AI for Developers • May 15, 2026 Thanks to AI, Mentorship Pair Programming Isn’t What It Used To Be Coding agents have changed what happens when you sit down to pair with someone newer to the codebase for mentorship pair programming.
AI for Developers • May 14, 2026 What I Got Out of Claude Code Insights (Without Rebuilding My Workflow) I was skeptical, but now I'm sold. If you've been using Claude Code for a while and haven't run /insights yet, it's worth a look.
AWS • May 13, 2026 3 AWS Cognito Gotchas (and How My Software Development Team Worked Around Them) On a recent project, we used AWS Cognito for authentication, and these are the issues we ran into and how we solved them.
AI for Developers • May 12, 2026 Try This Pattern for a Small Agent Surface Most agent setups are overbuilt. Sometimes what matters is a small agent surface that both a human and a model can use without ceremony.
AI for Developers • May 11, 2026 Lessons from Running Computer Vision Models in Production One might think computer vision models are supposed to be easy to put into production. There are whole companies built on that promise.
Artificial Intelligence • May 10, 2026 26 Things To Do While You’re Waiting for Your Agent to Run Tasks take time, even for the AI agent. This means I have a new category of time on my hands: the agent wait.
Growing as Makers • May 09, 2026 The Visibility Trap: What Predatory Media Pitches Reveal About Our Need for Real Community Too often, "opportunities" are just predatory pitches in disguise. What people are hungry for is real community.
Project & Team Management • May 08, 2026 Navigating the Road Ahead: Lessons from Downtown Traffic for Managing Projects You could learn about managing a project from driving in Raleigh: Make your “construction zones” visible and check the traffic regularly.
AI for Developers • May 07, 2026 If You Think AI Made You a 10x Developer, You Need to Pair Program More When you pair program, you decide when you want to pay for the decisions you’re making. With AI in the loop, it’s easy to defer that cost.
