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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Personal Optimization • May 21, 2023 Building a Better Book Club: a 5-step Strategy for Efficiently Ingesting Nonfiction With this five-step strategy, we’re making absorbing the good ideas locked in business books more efficient and enjoyable.
Vue • May 16, 2023 How to Test a Vue Component with Nested Components Using Jest Recently I had to scour the internet for hours before I found an answer for testing a Vue component that has nested subcomponents.
Web Apps • May 02, 2023 SvelteKit: A Simple Solution for Web Development On a recent project, our clients needed a marketing-style website, without a ton of bells and whistles. SvelteKit fit all their requirements.
Artificial Intelligence • May 01, 2023 AI is Poised to Have a Huge Impact on the Insurtech Industry Learn how leaders in the Insuretech industry are leveraging AI and putting pressure on traditional insurance industry practices.
Evolving the Industry • Apr 30, 2023 Open-Source Software: A Love Letter to Sharing Knowledge A core Atomic Object value is "Teach & Learn," because knowledge is best shared. This value is also at the heart of open-source software.
Effective communication • Apr 29, 2023 Here’s How to Give Better Feedback Giving feedback can be uncomfortable, and the way we deliver it can have a huge impact. Let's look at how to give good feedback.
