Development Practices Code Review: A New Developer’s Guide Reviewing code as a new developer can be daunting. I've written a guide to code review best practices to help you.
Culture Embrace a Growth Mindset Culture: High Expectations Plus Strong Support A growth mindset culture affects what we expect from our teams, but we must first understand what a fixed and a growth mindset are.
Growing as Makers Hello World: You Are Not the Imposter When you're feeling imposter syndrome, remember that teamwork makes the dream work: it’s an immediate jump into learning.
Development 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.
Growing as Makers 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.
Culture How to Host a LGBTQIA+ Lunch and Learn We hope you'll feel a little more empowered to participate or even host an LGBTQIA+ Lunch and Learn event like this for your community.
Business Practices Why Companies Should Have Feedback Sessions for New Developers Feedback sessions are a useful tool for building healthy teams and open communication, and new developers can especially benefit from them.
Growing as Makers Atomic Con: The Value of Hosting an Internal Conference Our next internal conference, Atomic Con, will be held in early 2024, and our planning committee has already gotten the ball rolling.
Platforms & Languages Learn a New Programming Language Even If You Don’t Need It Why bother learning another programming language? Take the pressure of learning something "useful" and just have fun.
Growing as Makers Debunking Learning Styles: Better Ways to Be a Teacher Here, I'll argue against a widely-held belief in unique learning styles that don't actually help with teaching or learning.
Growing as Makers Growing as a Developer by Teaching to Learn It’s common knowledge that teaching something is a great way to reinforce your own understanding of it. That definitely has held true for me.
Growing as Makers 3 Ways Ego Prevents You from Succeeding at Work Dropping my ego allowed me to exhibit the teach and learn value much better, and I have become a better developer because of it.
