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UX/Design Practices • Sep 18, 2015

The Designer’s Question: Do I Need to Learn to Code?

Despite my affinity toward visual design, I see huge value in learning some basic programming languages

Web Apps • Sep 15, 2015

Waiter, There’s a WordPress in My Web App!

Using WordPress and WP-API to provide protected, headless CMS content inside an independent web app.

Functional Programming • Sep 14, 2015

Four Reasons to Use Maps Instead of Classes

"Just use maps to represent data in Clojure," they told me. Heresy! But I've fallen in love with the approach, and would like to share four reasons why.

Personal Optimization • Sep 13, 2015

Putting “Certainty” to the Test in Group Decisions

Often certainty—not accuracy or correctness—is what persuades others to follow your way of thinking.

Web Apps • Sep 01, 2015

Optimize Web App Performance through Drawing

What calls were being made when? What impact would changing our API have? To help visualize what’s going on, try drawing out your page.

Software Science • Aug 25, 2015

Thinking in Aggregates – Moving Beyond the Singular

Rather than thinking in terms of individual particulars, we can accomplish a lot more by working with aggregates of smaller ideas.

Developer Tools • Aug 23, 2015

Fuzz Testing with afl-fuzz (American Fuzzy Lop)

On using Google's American Fuzzy Lop for fuzz testing.

Growing as Makers • Aug 21, 2015

Consultancies: The Smart First Job for Software Developers

Working at a consultancy is the best way to jumpstart your career as a software developer.

Embedded Systems • Aug 19, 2015

5 Steps to Getting Started with Embedded Programing

"How do I learn embedded systems programming?" is like asking, "How do I learn development?" but in an alternate universe where 128k is still a lot of RAM.

iOS / OS X • Aug 17, 2015

Continuous Validation for Mobile User Interfaces in iOS

We can automate testing so that our iOS user interface looks the way we expect by taking a screenshot of every view and composing them into a document.

Objective-C • Aug 15, 2015

Objection Turns 4, Gets 1,000th Follower

Objection is a dependency injection framework for Objective-C that I wrote in one day 2011 while working on an iOS project.

Growing as Makers • Aug 09, 2015

How to Become a Software Designer – 5 Essential Skills

Software design is far more than visual design. It's about solving problems with empathy, experimentation, and inspiration.