Remote work tip: Keeping your team in the loop with screencasts
Lately I’ve been doing a lot of remote collaboration with a team of designers and developers. This article explains a technique for sharing information that I found really helpful.
Remote work tip: Rubber ducking with a journal
This productivity hack for developers might sound a little bit crazy, but I found that it works quite well.
7 ways to avoid aggravation in code reviews
Thankfully many software companies have adopted code reviews as a best practice these days. An overlooked aspect of how code reviews are conducted is how they can also affect the relationship between engineers negatively.
Monitoring your Node.js app with Datadog
This is a tutorial about how to instrument a Node.js app with realtime metrics. We’ll use Datadog as a backend to do the monitoring together with the datadog-metrics library.
Rolling the dice
I read a great comment a while ago that could be summarized as “everything you attempt and every action you take has a probability of success”.
Can’t keep up? Read Hacker News without wasting tons of time
I love Hacker News. Taken with a grain of salt, it’s a great source of tech news. It’s also a very addictive source of tech news.
Introducing my new utility website: large-type.com
Display and share text in a large font, directly from your browser.
Remote work productivity tools for software development
A collection of tools that I found useful for effective remote work as a software engineer, grouped by topic.
How to store photos in the cloud and avoid vendor lock-in
I’ve been burned by relying 100% on a cloud service before. Some time ago a photographer friend convinced me to sign up for an awesome photo storage service called Everpix.
OS X notifications for your pytest runs
This article shows you how to use the pytest-osxnotify, a plugin for pytest that adds native Mac OS X notifications to the pytest terminal runner.
How to become a better software developer
A while ago I gave a presentation at Mobify’s monthly Engineering Meeting where I spoke about various tactics that can help you become the best software developer you can be. I figured this may be useful to other folks as well and decided to share it in a blog post.
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