Growing as Makers • Jun 11, 2023 Reflections on 5 Years as a Software Consultant In the last two years, I’ve been part of a much larger team, on a single project, operating as a tech lead.
Exploratory Testing • Jun 10, 2023 Exploratory Testing: Looking for Patterns Being able to look for a pattern, especially a non-obvious one, has been a useful skill and one I still use a lot. Here are few examples.
Project & Team Management • Jun 09, 2023 How I Support My Team When I Can’t Be There Over the years, I’ve cultivated a few methods for staying in sync with my team even when I’m running from one meeting to the next.
React Native • Jun 08, 2023 Developing a React Native App: Styling Differences to Watch For Checking out the style guides for both Android and iOS mobile phone types is important for creating common components in React Native.
Developer Tools • Jun 07, 2023 Bundle Analysis: An Underrated Tool Bundle analysis tools can help a developer find mistakes and bloat that could be optimized to provide a better application to their users.
Project & Team Management • Jun 06, 2023 How to Save Brainpower on a Multi-Repo Project in VS Code Here, you'll learn how to customize VS Code colors for different workspaces. But, first, let's start with the why.
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.
