The Software Life • Feb 17, 2024 Snaps and Buttons are for Chumps: Working Parents’ Practical Advice to Manage Baby-Raising I pride myself on being coachable and listening to smart people around me. This MO has served me well... until I sought parenting advice.
Personal Optimization • Feb 16, 2024 Work with Polybar in Emacs X Window Manager, Part 2: Add Workspace Indicators With this fix, we should see the workspace indicators in the `polybar` panel, and when we switch workspaces, we should see it update.
Personal Optimization • Feb 15, 2024 Work with Polybar in Emacs X Window Manager, Part 1: Getting Started I run a multi-monitor setup, but the script I borrowed from David Wilson of System Crafters only launches polybar on the main screen.
Platforms & Languages • Feb 14, 2024 How To Use API Route Handlers in Next.js 13+ (App Router) The latest Next.js update introduces a directory structure known as the app router and a new method for handling API routes: Route Handlers.
Developer Tools • Feb 13, 2024 An Introduction to BalenaOS and BalenaCloud Here are a few things I learned from my first experience with an embedded-ish software platform: BalenaCloud and BalenaOS.
Java • Feb 12, 2024 Zip Archives with the Java Stream API Here are example implementations of creating a Java Stream API that yields the entries in a ZIP archive, reading from a provided InputStream.
Product Development • Feb 11, 2024 De-risk Software Development the MVP Way There's a lot of misunderstanding around the concept of MVP (Minimum Viable Product) in software. I intend to make a case for it today.
Development Practices • Feb 10, 2024 Enhance Discovery Phase Pairing: Techniques for Varied Skill Levels I've championed the idea of "pair exploring" during the Discovery Phase. Today, I've got some strategies to amp up your discovery game.
Growing as Makers • Feb 09, 2024 What Developers Could Learn from Talking to the Design Team Let's talk about what developers can learn from the design team while expanding their consulting skills, too.
Culture • Feb 08, 2024 Scrum Ceremonies to Add to Your Sprint: Team Flex Time In this series, Scrum Ceremonies to Add to Your Sprint, we discussed pre-refinement and demo prep. Today, let's talk about team flex time.
Project & Team Management • Feb 07, 2024 Scrum Ceremonies to Add to Your Sprint: Demo Prep In part one of this series on Scrum Ceremonies to Add to Your Sprint, we discussed pre-refinement. In part two, we'll talk about demo prep.
Product Development • Feb 06, 2024 Scrum Ceremonies to Add to Your Sprint: Pre-Refinement Product owners often don’t know the technical complexities of the work they want completed. This is where pre-refinement comes in.
