Product Development and Listening for the Love
For those who grew up with siblings, the phrase “listen for the love” may be especially familiar. Big sister telling you what to do…
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AI Hacks to Make Life Easier at Work and Play
The journey of artificial intelligence (AI) began in the 1950s with the pioneering work of Alan Turing, who proposed the Turing Test to determine…
Case Study – Dylibso
the IDEA Create a Fun Way to Teach Developers Extism Dylibso is on a mission to make WebAssembly everyone’s favorite binary format. To this…
Use Svelte for Speed and Magic
Many web developers use JavaScript to make their websites responsive and reactive. With the advent of Node.js and npm, many devs have moved from…
Tips for Connecting Remote Engineering Teams
Keeping remote teams connected is challenging. In addition to an all-hands meeting, we build team culture through weekly department meetings for our technical teams:…
A Work From Home Asynchronous Communication Checklist
A Guide to Getting Off the Island When you’re stuck at a computer, in a room by yourself, on a problem you can’t solve,…
BTC++, Consensus, and the Elusive Web3
On a recent Saturday evening in Austin, Texas, I left a talk between a human rights activist and an Afghan entrepreneur revolving around using…
Finding Joy on Zoom
After years of remote work, is it possible to enjoy a Zoom meeting? After months of experiments, our All Hands meeting is now a…
How to Get Hired as a Front-End Design Engineer
What does it take to join the Revelry design team? After seven years of hiring front-end designers, VP of Design Laura Eble shares her…
The Bitcoin Extended Public Key: Explaining the Mystery
Scanning, paths, hardened keys, derived addresses…these are just a smattering of the ‘fun’ nomenclature that awaits you if you dip your toe in the…
Converting Phoenix mix.gen.live Files to Surface Compatible Files
Introduction One of the most handy features of Phoenix 1.6+ is the ability to use mix phx.gen.live to easily generate Liveviews, templates, and a…
How to Kill Staging Without “Testing in Production”
Most software teams have left behind the Waterfall(1) methodology in favor of approaches that move faster and flex more to accommodate changes and maximize the…
Tackling Hard Problems Head-On (Can Be a Mistake)
A really hard problem can feel like a great chance to flex our skills and finally use some of those architectural patterns we’ve been…
Nix: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Today we explore Nix, a purely functional package manager. Why Nix? Joe Armstrong, one of the creators of Erlang, once described Erlang as the…
Online Planning Poker for Accelerated Decision Making
Planning poker is an important part of estimating time spent on a project. But how do companies that recently went remote do planning poker? Here’s how we do planning poker for remote teams.