JavaScript • Jun 05, 2023 JavaScript’s Template Strings are Likely the Wrong Tool for Your Job It's way too common to try to put together query strings using JavaScript's template strings. Thankfully, there's an easy and much better way.
Culture • Jun 04, 2023 Nuggets, Culture, and the Benefits of Co-location I'll share a story about my co-workers' chicken nugget experiment and how that relates to our company culture's emphasis on co-location.
The Software Life • Jun 03, 2023 What is a Software Consultant and Developer Anyway? At Atomic the software consultant & developers are product innovators, tool sharpeners, process geeks and, of course, skilled developers.
Personal Optimization • Jun 02, 2023 The Big Stay: Job-Hopping May Be Lucrative, but Tenure Pays, Too Here are a few counterpoints to reasons people advocate for job-hopping. That trend is slowing down in favor of one called The Big Stay.
React / Redux • Jun 01, 2023 Zustand: The Simpler Alternative to Redux I find Redux verbose and complicated, so I decided to consult the React roadmap for additional options. That’s when I discovered Zustand.
Growing as Makers • May 31, 2023 Build Your Consulting Skills as a Junior Developer For the past few months, I've gone on a journey to build my consulting skills. Here is what I've discovered along the way.
Angular • May 30, 2023 Automatically Unsubscribe from RXJS Observables in Angular Components If you prefer to be diligent, I'll introduce you to a way to make unsubscribing from observables in your components clean and quick.
Project & Team Management • May 29, 2023 How Rowing Made Me a Better Delivery Lead Here is how joining a rowing team has made me a better Delivery Lead. Disclaimer: I am not an expert in either domain. Yet.
Growing as Makers • May 28, 2023 What Does Being a Good Leader Mean? Making Life Easier for Your Team In the end, if you ensured that the problem was addressed, you were a good leader, no matter how you did it.
Personal Optimization • May 27, 2023 A Note to My Former Self: It’s Okay to Make Friendships at Work It's okay: make friendships at work. When you know and trust your coworkers, you'll collaborate more effectively and communicate openly.
Exploratory Testing • May 26, 2023 QA: How Get People to Like You When Your Job is to Find Problems with Their Work As a Quality Analyst (QA) in the office, being the person looking for errors could cause a hostile relationship with developers.
DevOps & System Admin. • May 25, 2023 How and Why You Should Add Color to Your Scripts Color can help humans pick out useful information in a sea of output. Adding color to your shell scripts portably is actually pretty easy.
