AI for Developers • Mar 31, 2025 How I Effectively Use Roo Code for AI-Assisted Development In this guide, I’ll walk you through how I’ve been able to effectively use Roo Code in my development workflow.
Growing as Makers • Mar 30, 2025 Working Ahead of the Curve: How Developers Become Consultants Discover how developers can increase their impact by adopting a consultant mindset and turning small insights into project successes.
Managing Your Team • Mar 29, 2025 The Power and Perils of Place: Weighing Colocation vs. Distribution According to PMI's IT Project Success Survey, co-location in agile teams achieve a 79% success rate compared to just 55% for distribution.
Artificial Intelligence • Mar 28, 2025 Build a Joke-Telling Chatbot with LangGraph and Streamlit Let's explore how to build an interactive joke-telling chatbot - including a setup and punchline - using LangGraph, LangChain, and Streamlit.
Growing as Makers • Mar 27, 2025 Junior Devs: Avoid These Pitfalls with LLMs Junior developers need to use LLMs differently than senior ones. Here's why and what I have been trying instead.
Developer Tools • Mar 26, 2025 Simplify RAG with Pinecone + LangChain Implementing Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is surprisingly easy using Pinecone's vector database and the LangChain ecosystem.
Development Practices • Mar 25, 2025 Encryption for Your App – Best Practices for Getting Started Adding security or encryption to a project can be daunting. It's tough even to know where to start. Here are a few things to keep in mind.
AWS • Mar 24, 2025 Encrypt Per-User Data with AWS Secrets Manager and KMS I'll share a strategy for using AWS Secrets Manager and KMS to encrypt and decrypt secret data using one key per user.
Personal Optimization • Mar 23, 2025 You Don’t Know Everything, and That Is Okay The tech landscape is ever-changing. It’s impossible to know everything, but think of that as a chance to grow continuously.
Growing as Makers • Mar 22, 2025 The Secrets to Being an Effective Mentor and Mentee Great mentorship is a two-way street. In strong mentorship relationships, both mentor and mentee engage with intentionality and trust.
Project & Team Management • Mar 21, 2025 5 Dysfunctions of a Team & 5 Ways to Fix Them Here are 5 dysfunctions of a team and their root causes, suggestions on how fix each, and thoughts on how our values at Atomic help us.
Exploratory Testing • Mar 20, 2025 Tips for Unit Testing in Front-End Frameworks: Part 2 In the second installment of "Tips for Unit Testing in Front-end Frameworks," we'll determine our testing prerequisites.