Java • Mar 03, 2025 Try Case-Insensitive Unicode Sorting in SQLite with Pre-collated Strings Here's how you use the Collator class in Java to pre-collate Unicode strings in a case-insensitive way so that SQLite can index/sort them.
Culture • Mar 02, 2025 How We Help Startups: The Big, the Small, and the Medium I've consulted with startups for the past several years, and opportunities shift significantly based on the size and maturity of the company.
Business Practices • Mar 01, 2025 Why One-Click Job Applications Are Bad for Job Seekers Despite my best attempts to avoid the platform, I was recently sucked into LinkedIn and came across a post about one-click applications.
Growing as Makers • Feb 28, 2025 From Overwhelmed to Organized: A Step-by-Step Guide to Crushing Your Learning Goals I have a list of things I want to read, listen to, and learn from. This year, I'm going to make a dent in my learning goals, and you can too.
Development Practices • Feb 27, 2025 3 Simple Security Tips for Your Web App After working on a security-focused software development project for a while, I’ve learned quite a bit and will share some security tips.
Development Practices • Feb 26, 2025 Using Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY + Server-Sent Events for Real-Time Web Apps If your web app uses a Postgres database, you're already most of the way to live updates in the browser. Here's how to use LISTEN/NOTIFY.
Web Apps • Feb 25, 2025 How to Build and Publish Browser Extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari Learn how to develop browser extensions. Follow this guide to see how to adapt your extension to be compatible with three popular browsers.
Development Practices • Feb 24, 2025 Here’s How You Solve a Matrix of Feature Flags Feature flags are often represented as on/off switches. But what happens when they need to represent more states?
Business Practices • Feb 23, 2025 A Flat Organization & Self-Managing Teams: a Recipe For Success Imagine a workplace where management layers don't bottleneck decisions. That's reality for a flat organization with self-managing teams.
Project & Team Management • Feb 22, 2025 Sprint Demos: Fewer Crickets, More Conversations Sprint Demos are opportunites for the team to showcase their completed work, validate assumptions, and gather stakeholder feedback.
Test Driven Development • Feb 21, 2025 Test Your Software or Your Users Will End users don't know or care about acceptance criteria! The only useful measure of the product quality is the user experience with it.
Artificial Intelligence • Feb 20, 2025 From Assistant to Collaborative Colleague (or AI as Work Buddy) AI can be more than an assistant. AI collaboration can produce something more like a trusted colleague and partner in creativity.
