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Personal Optimization • May 24, 2017

How to Balance Multiple Projects without Losing Your Sanity

If I plan my days well, they can be perfectly curated to keep me focused and get the job(s) done. Here are my tips for creating that balance.

Development Practices • May 23, 2017

How We Used a Week of Spikes to Map Out a Feature

In less than a week of strategic spiking, we were able to “de-risk” the majority of our upcoming work. We even had time to explore some other options.

Project & Team Management • May 22, 2017

Planning for Unpredictable Costs During Your Project’s Grow Phase

Launching at the right time, using buffers judiciously, and keeping an eye on your resource plan will lead to cost savings and success of the product.

Project & Team Management • May 16, 2017

Choosing the Right Release Cadence for Your Project

Release too often, and you risk coming off as frantic and harried. Release too seldom, and you risk appearing inflexible, and unresponsive.

Web Apps • May 15, 2017

Optimizing GraphQL Queries with DataLoader

If you don't optimize your GraphQL queries, you can end up with sending multiple round trips to the database over the course of a single query.

Project & Team Management • May 11, 2017

Get Better Software Estimates by Combining Different Perspectives

There's no silver bullet approach for estimation. But if we attack the problem from several different angles, we'll arrive at a range we can trust.

Extracurricular Activities • May 06, 2017

Four Lessons Learned while Troubleshooting CAN Bus Communication with my Subaru

I started a personal project involving two of my favorite things: cars and software. I've been reminded of a few good troubleshooting lessons along the way.

DevOps & System Admin. • Apr 24, 2017

Livestream: “The Art & Craft of Secrets: Using the Cryptographic Toolbox”

This talk will review what the crypto tools are and how they fit together with our frameworks to provide trust and privacy for our applications.

TypeScript • Apr 24, 2017

Modular, Type-safe Metadata with TypeScript

You can do some pretty powerful things with the tools TypeScript provides. Reflect on your TypeScript types to drive runtime behavior in a type-safe way.

Development Practices • Apr 21, 2017

Don’t Discount Problems You Haven’t Had Yet

If your last project didn't need any insurance, be happy odds fell in your favor. And keep using spikes, automation, etc. to keep your premiums paid up.

Web Apps • Mar 31, 2017

GraphQL + Apollo – Part 3: Building a Client

The Apollo client toolchains enable you to integrate with any GraphQL server. This post will explore building an Apollo client in React.

Web Apps • Mar 30, 2017

GraphQL + Apollo – Part 2: Building a Server

GraphQL Servers are a powerful tool that can be used in virtually any ecosystem. I've been really happy with the Apollo toolchain so far.