Removing Risk from Product Launches

Webinar: Watch or read the transcript to see how GoPro uses continuous integration and feature flags to ensure a successful product launch.They cover:-the planning strategies that ensured a surprise-free launch-how GoPro’s use of feature flags ensures that their engineers never lose sleep-recent improvements to their CI pipeline

Elixir String Manipulation - Today I Learned

At Revelry, we do something called TWIL: This Week I Learned. And in the last week or so, we discovered a lot of amazing topics at TIL.

For instance,  I did not know about `String.codepoints("foo")`

And, today I learned that TIL has tag pages for all sorts of learnings. Thanks, TIL!

The Twelve-Factor App

A methodology for building modern, scalable, maintainable software-as-a-service apps: The twelve-factor methodology can be applied to apps written in any programming language, and which use any combination of backing services (database, queue, memory cache, etc).

Bob Ross Lipsum - A happy little lorem ipsum generator

Use your imagination, let it go. Almost everything is going to happen for you automatically - you don't have to spend any time working or worrying. Van Dyke Brown is a very nice brown, it's almost like a chocolate brown. At home you have unlimited time. Let's build some happy little clouds up here.

Articulating Design Decisions

Chapter 4: Reducing Cognitive Load

All-too-real anecdotes of distracting the client with placeholder copy. Remove distractions so that you can focus on building the product.

Design for Real Life: An Interview with Sara Wachter-Boettcher

It’s really about inclusion. For example, look at gender in product design: crash-test dummies are all sized to the “average male,” and as a result, car accidents are far more dangerous for women than men. Medical research subjects are nearly always men—despite the fact that women experience illnesses at different rates than men, and respond to treatment differently. Of course we’ve transferred these same biased practices to the web.

Project Managers: Run Towards Smoke

"We run towards smoke.  We seek the source of the trouble so that we may assess it and take the appropriate course of action, whether it’s unplugging the toaster and dumping the smoldering bread crumbs in the sink or pulling the fire alarm and yelling for everyone to leave the building immediately." 

Do Your Job And Trust The Process

Excellence is a matter of steps. Excelling at the first thing, then the second, and then the next. The process is about staying in the present and laying siege to the obstacle in front of you. It’s about not getting distracted by anything else that comes your way.

Announcing Harmonium: Our React UI Component Kit

If you're hunting for a comprehensive React UI component library, you want one with parts that are built to work together. That's why we built Harmonium.

How to Take Your Pair Programming Skills to the Next Level

Pair programming is awesome, but your pair programming skills might need some leveling up. Here's how to make the most of collaborative learning by pairing.