Atomic Spin

Personal Optimization • Aug 01, 2013

On Writing Technical Content

Here's what I've learned about managing time when writing technical content — categorize tasks, and figure out your best setting and work flow for each.

Embedded Systems • Jul 31, 2013

Knocking Out Bugs with greatest

greatest doesn't depend on anything beyond ANSI C or do any allocation, keeps boilerplate to a minimum, and allows for rapid iteration during development.

Ruby • Jul 29, 2013

Simple Algebraic Data Types for Ruby

Here's a simple approximation of algebraic data types in Ruby using Ruby's struct class and the case equality operator.

Extracurricular Activities • Jul 28, 2013

Tracking Down Disk Usage on the Command Line

I created short terminal command that I use to check disk usage by identifying large files and folders.

Personal Optimization • Jul 24, 2013

The Structure of a Real Apology

Life requires apologies sometimes. A real apology is a gift and a smart investment in the quality and happiness of our relationships with others.

Functional Programming • Jul 23, 2013

Understanding Homoiconicity in Clojure

To really understand Clojure macros, you first need to have a good understanding of what makes them so powerful – homoiconicity.

News & Events • Jul 22, 2013

Half of All Atoms Now Owners, Thanks to ESPP

During the last two quarters, Atomic Object added 10 more employee owners, thanks to a new Employee Share Purchase Program (ESPP).

DevOps & System Admin. • Jul 21, 2013

Multiple Ubuntu Installations with Grub

The steps I used to configure a small Grub partition used to chainload multiple Ubuntu installations on separate partitions.

Personal Optimization • Jul 20, 2013

Organize Your Life with Trello

Trello is a great todo list app that can help organize your life in many ways. Here are a few ways I use it at work and at home.

Developer Tools • Jul 19, 2013

Distributing Large Files Easily with Amazon S3

How I use Amazon's S3 to archive data and distribute large files to customers.

Personal Optimization • Jul 18, 2013

5 Ways to Increase Your Curiosity

I've recently been looking into how to increase my curiosity in order to improve engagement with clients and become a better maker.

iOS / OS X • Jul 17, 2013

Disable Hiding on your Mac OS App

While you should probably never, ever need to do this in your own project, I've decided to share how I went about making this work seamlessly.