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Development Practices • Dec 22, 2020

Are Dynamic Items Missing from Your Design Mockups?

Web app style guides always include basic items like error states for forms. Unfortunately, the more dynamic items are often not specified.

DevOps & System Admin. • Dec 21, 2020

How to Use TypeORM with Webpack

TypeORM and Webpack don't play together nicely out of the box. But with a little bit of webpack magic and conditionals, they can be used together.

Extracurricular Activities • Dec 15, 2020

Get in the Holiday Spirit with Custom LEDs

How I turned the random electronics in my desk drawer into a customizable LED Christmas light display.

Platforms & Languages • Dec 14, 2020

Improve Performance Using SQL Functions in Postgres

Here two ways to use functions in Postgres to improve the performance of your application — applying predicates and computing derivative values.

Evolving the Industry • Dec 12, 2020

Blockchain & Ethereum: Welcome to the Decentralized Internet

Bitcoin showed us the first use-case of blockchain technology; Ethereum will show us many more. It's a marketplace of financial services, games, and apps that can't steal your data

Developer Tools • Dec 11, 2020

Design Lessons from the Azure Portal

Thoughts on what makes a developer tool like the Azure Portal easy to use and what can make it extremely frustrating.

Designing for Users • Dec 04, 2020

Getting to the Right Amount of Design

As a product matures, the likelihood of building the wrong product should decrease, and the product's polish, interactiveness, and depth of features can increase.

Personal Optimization • Nov 22, 2020

Screen-Free Mindfulness – 4 Ways to Be More Mindful Without an App

Mindfulness doesn't have to come from yet another screen. Dodge the apps with these four no-screen ways to boost your mindfulness.

Development Practices • Nov 16, 2020

How to Tackle Ill-Defined Technical Work

Have you run into a technically-focused backlog item with little definition? Follow these four steps to manage expectations and find success.

Developer Tools • Nov 04, 2020

Screen – My Favorite Multi-Purpose Tool for Pair Programming

Stop bouncing between Zoom, Discord, Miro, and VSCode Live Share. Screen lets you move smoothly between pair programming, diagramming, and screen sharing.

DevOps & System Admin. • Nov 03, 2020

Best Practices for Managing AWS Configuration with Multiple Sets of Credentials

With these simple principles, I'm able to easily use AWS across multiple accounts and regions on both the web and command line.

UX/Design Practices • Oct 27, 2020

3 Ways to Remove Gender Bias from Early UX Design Phases

What we say about users often includes things like their name, age, and gender. But these bring stereotypes that keep us from being inclusive.