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How and Why I’m Improving My Developer Vocabulary

Since I've started actively trying to improve my developer vocabulary, I've seen benefits that extend beyond mentoring other developers.

Gage Vander Clay

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Personal Optimization • Feb 22

Never Missing a Birthday Again with Sheets + Slack

I’ll walk through how I built a simple birthday bot using Google Sheets as the data source and Slack API for message delivery.

Personal Optimization • Feb 21

Upgrade Your Note-Taking Skills From The Classroom To The Office

When you’re first starting your career, you might find that college skills just aren’t transferable. I've had to relearn note-taking.

Growing as Makers • Feb 09

Puzzle Games That Sharpen a Developer’s Mental Modeling Skills

Puzzle games won’t replace the experience you get from real engineering work, but they can sharpen the tools you work with every day.

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A screenshot from The Talos Principle (video game) showing a robot character facing a cube with a laser-redirecting device on top. Post title: Puzzle Games That Sharpen a Developer’s Mental Modeling Skills

Growing as Makers

Puzzle Games That Sharpen a Developer’s Mental Modeling Skills

Puzzle games won’t replace the experience you get from real engineering work, but they can sharpen the tools you work with every day.

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Growing as Makers

How Reality TV Makes Me a Better Designer

Here's how a generalist designer uses reality TV and fantasy football to stay current with design tools, avoid skill decay, and grow.

The ratchet mechanism that makes the TV tuner on the NES TV click. Illustrating a post titled: Building with LEGOs and Building Software for the Future

Growing as Makers

Building with LEGOs and Building Software for the Future

I've been thinking about how the expertise I gain from building LEGO models is a lot like how I build software effectively at Atomic Object.

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Two developers look at a screen together. Post title: Six Things I Learned in My First Six Months in the Accelerator Program

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6 Things I Learned in My First 6 Months in the Accelerator Program

Unleash Your Creativity and Grow Your AI Skills at Atomic Games 2023

Atomic Accelerator

Unleash Your Creativity and Grow Your AI Skills at Atomic Games 2023

A 20201 overview of Atomic Accelerator Recruiting

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An Atomic Accelerator Recruiting Retrospective for 2021

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Pursing a Career in Software Development? Focus on Teamwork

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Thanks for the Feedback – An Atomic Take

Giving or receiving feedback can be a difficult conversation, but knowing beforehand what kind of feedback is wanted can improve the discussion drastically.

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