Note: This is one chapter from a free+ mini-book I’ve written called Rethinking Agile. We tend to think about systems from top-to-bottom when in reality it is best to work the other way around. Agile Ambassadors I will loosely define Agile teams as teams consisting of a compilation of product people and…

Design tokens solve a particular problem. Design tokens are tech-agnostic encapsulations of design specifications that can be formatted into tech-specific assets (e.g. CSS variables). It’s a particular solution, but I reckon that it may be generalized to other problems in software engineering. Consider linting rules. They are effectively our “code…

In an interesting book called Technopoly, Neil Postman evaluates the invention of the stethoscope with a degree of criticism that we are not custom to in modernity. Namely, Postman asserts that while the stethoscope is a tremendous technology that has increased doctors' success, it is not without its big-picture consequences…

What Are We Testing? Jest snapshot testing is primarily used for testing the rendered output of React components. The rendered output is ultimately the element(s) that render in the DOM:

Kent C. Dodd’s AHA Programming Talk at React Summit Remote Edition Often when writing or reviewing code, developers have a natural tendency to create an abstraction that avoids duplication upfront but evolves into a hairy situation as new use cases come. Kent C. …

In the previous article, I walked through creating a basic SVG. In this article, I will pick up where we left off and explore SVG animations. Whereas bitmap/raster graphics are composed of individual pixels, vector graphics are composed of individual shapes. This provides for the ability for vector graphics to…

In this article, I explain what is a scalable vector graphic (SVG) and how it differs from other graphics. I will also walk you through coding your very first graphic! A Primer on Computer Graphics

Table of Contents Chapter 1 | Why Bother? …

Table of Contents Chapter 1 | Why Bother? Chapter 2 | Learning the Basics of Elixir Chapter 3 | Introduction to Phoenix Chapter 4 | Implementing React Chapter 5 | Working With PostgreSQL Chapter 6 | Creating a PostgreSQL API Service Chapter 7 | CRUD Operations Chapter 8 | User Authentication What Are Channels?