Planning Your Project • Mar 16, 2024 Use Legacy Lines of Code to Estimate Software Rewrites You can use legacy lines of code as a proxy to estimate the complexity and scale of software rewrite projects.
Developer Tools • Mar 15, 2024 Let’s Play Pictionary: The Pros and Cons of Drawing on Screen Shares Your conferencing software might include an annotation feature. Here's why I love using it on a screen share during remote pair programming.
Business Practices • Mar 09, 2024 The Art and Impact of Making “Intelligent Failures” Embracing "intelligent failure" as an opportunity for learning, innovation, and team improvement is an important tool for developer teams.
AI for Developers • Mar 06, 2024 Stuck? Benefits of Pair Programming vs. Using an AI Assistant Facing a tough programming problem? You have a choice: asking a team member to dive in with you, or firing up ChatGPT for some AI assistance.
Development • Mar 03, 2024 The Value of Being an Intentionally Dogmatic Software Developer Falling into the trap of dogmatism is common in software development, but being intentionally dogmatic can be a boon for anyone's career.
Project & Team Management • Mar 02, 2024 A Quick Guide for Onboarding New Developers Joining a team in the middle of a project can feel awkward, so I consider these things when faced with onboarding a new developer.
Personal Optimization • Mar 01, 2024 Boost Productivity: Handy VS Code Keyboard Shortcuts for Developers In our daily grind, developers get bogged down by repetitive non-coding tasks. Fear not: keyboard shortcuts for VS Code are here to rescue us.
Developer Tools • Feb 29, 2024 Diversify Dev Tooling to Support Collaboration on Custom Software We diversified our developer tooling to enable direct collaboration with our custom software client. Here's how it worked out.
React / Redux • Feb 28, 2024 10 Lessons Learned from 4 Weeks of Updating Bootstrap Another developer and I spent about 345 hours updating the Bootstrap and React Bootstrap versions on two web apps. Here's what I learned.
Project & Team Management • Feb 25, 2024 Here’s How We Manage Decentralized Decision Makers At Atomic Object, we strive to create a culture of high trust, believing in our employees to make the best decision for our client's project.
Growing as Makers • Feb 23, 2024 Try These 2 Games to Make Learning Programming Fun Here are two games I stumbled upon whose key mechanic is programming. Each game can make learning to program fun.
Extracurricular Activities • Feb 22, 2024 Keep an Eye on Container Status with lazydocker I appreciate how lazydocker lets me visualize container status. It makes something inherently very boring much more interesting.
