Resources for Clients • Nov 27, 2024 Understanding Risk in Software Development: Ignorant vs. Honest You probably associate risk with the stock market or extreme sports. But risk in software development is prevalent for clients.
Artificial Intelligence • Nov 26, 2024 Machine Learning for Absolute Beginners: Busting Popular ML Myths If you work in tech, marketing, healthcare, or finance, you’ve probably heard the term "machine learning" a lot. Let's look at some ML myths.
IoT • Nov 25, 2024 An Effective Healthcare IoT Project Requires a Different Approach. Most healthcare IoT projects are productivity tools. They’re measured differently so they need a different set of rules for defining value.
Developer Tools • Nov 24, 2024 Vim Macros: How to Record and Replay Vim macros let us transform code like no other editor. Here's how to use them and never write tedious code again.
Project & Team Management • Nov 23, 2024 What’s a Feature Captain and Why Do I Need One? On my last project, the tech lead introduced the concept of feature captains. I found this practice to be highly valuable.
UX/Design Practices • Nov 22, 2024 User-Centered Design: Like Counting Horse Teeth When a debate about user needs is going nowhere fast, imagine yourself in a group of intellectuals debating the number of teeth a horse has.
Development Practices • Nov 21, 2024 Stay Flexible: Tailor the Development Process for Each Client A one-size-fits-all process won't work, so consultancies like Atomic should lean into tailored projects for individual situations.
Developer Tools • Nov 20, 2024 jq for Creating and Updating JSON Here are some examples of using the jq command-line utility to create new JSON data from scratch or update values in an existing JSON document.
User Research • Nov 20, 2024 Address Journey Mapping Challenges: Insights from a Design Thinking Workshop Atomic Object’s Raleigh office hosted a design thinking workshop for eight local startups and introduced participants to journey mapping.
Exploratory Testing • Nov 19, 2024 Jest Setup: Gotchas with Next and MUI If you're setting up UI tests with Jest and React Testing Library and then adding in NextJS and Material UI, watch for these three things.
TypeScript • Nov 19, 2024 How to Create an NPM Package in TypeScript from the Ground Up Demystify the creation of a TypeScript NPM package by starting from the absolute minimum amount of code and building up a complete importable module.
Developer Tools • Nov 18, 2024 Save Time with Code Snippets in VS Code Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Snippets let you insert blocks of pre-defined code. This can be a serious time saver.