UX/Design Techniques • Jul 07, 2024 Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 3 – POEMS You can get better user observations and more useful user research with the POEMS methods. Here's my overview, a how-to, and a template.
Business Practices • Jul 05, 2024 The Manager’s Guide to Parental Leave Planning: A Timeline In the wealth of articles on what to pack in my hospital bag, I found nothing useful on parental leave planning. Here's what worked for us.
Technical Practices • Jul 03, 2024 5 Essential Steps for Starting a New Codebase Learn essential steps for creating a software repository. Ensure your project begins on solid ground when starting a new codebase.
The Software Life • Jun 25, 2024 Prompt Writing Basics: An Intro to GPTs for Non-Developers Learn the basics of prompt writing for common GPTs and get the most out of your conversation with ChatGPT or Claude.
UX/Design Techniques • Jun 23, 2024 Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 1 – The Love/Breakup Letter Need to identify positive and negative things about your brand/product/company/event? Apply some Design Thinking with the Love/Breakup Letter exercise.
Artificial Intelligence • Jun 22, 2024 Quality First: Navigating the Future of AI in Software Development with Atomic’s Co-CEOS Atomic Co-CEO's talk about how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping how we work in many fields, including software development.
Project & Team Management • Jun 19, 2024 3 Ways to Help Onboard New Developers to a Project New team members face a firehose of information. Here's how to onboard new developers to a software project and make it less painful.
Exploratory Testing • Jun 18, 2024 Ensuring Reliability in AI-Powered Applications: Testing Strategies for Generative AI Discover techniques for testing generative AI applications and how to ensure reliable, high-quality AI software with robust testing methods.
UX/Design Techniques • Jun 16, 2024 Design Thinking Toolkit – The Supply List Before diving into exercises, gather your design thinking supply list—a personal toolkit of essential supplies and nice-to-have items.
Development Practices • Jun 10, 2024 The Only Question a “Pair” LLM Programmer Can Answer Using an LLM programmer as a pair doesn’t seem like a bad idea. However, pair programming isn’t just about producing code faster.
Development Practices • Jun 04, 2024 Set Up Your VS Code-Godot Environment Recently, I integrated VS Code and Godot for a game jam. If you want to get Godot and VS Code talking, read this.
Developer Tools • Jun 03, 2024 If You’re Not Using GitHub Copilot, You’re Wasting Your Time Testing lets you get the most out of Copilot, knowing your tests will catch anything that might slip past your review.