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Make the Most of your Browser’s Address Bar

Address bar aliases simplify everyday tasks in the browser.
Stephen Hanson
June 10, 2019
- Productivity
- Web
Attempting to corral colors with a Sass function

I’ve been experimenting with a Sass color function, and I can’t tell if I love it or hate it.
Eric Bailey
June 7, 2019
- Sass
- Color
- Design
Using doobie; Scala with PostgreSQL vs ActiveRecord

I’ve wrapped up my second Scala client project, and I enjoyed SQL.
Matt Sumner
June 6, 2019
- Ruby
- Scala
- SQL
Strategies for opening phone URLs in iOS apps

Something as simple as making a phone call or opening a URL on iOS is more complicated than you may realise. How can we gracefully handle when things go wrong?
Adam Sharp
May 31, 2019
- UIkit
- iOS
- Mobile
- User Experience
- Design
How D&D Made Me Better at Facilitating Design Sprints

Insight into how nerdy collaborative board games can help you level up your skills as a facilitator of product design sprints.
Jeff Stolz
May 27, 2019
Ordered Collection Diffing

Calculating diffs in Swift just got a whole lot easier.
Patrick Montalto
May 20, 2019
- iOS
- Swift
- Xcode
Delivering features faster

Get the most velocity from your product team as it transitions from prototyping and validation to growth.
Kane Baccigalupi
May 15, 2019
iOS Coordinators: A Storyboard Approach

Leverage the benefits of Coordinators and Storyboards.
Patrick Montalto
May 14, 2019
- iOS
- Swift
- Xcode
Red Light, Yellow Light, Green Light: A Design Exercise for Getting Feedback From the Team

Getting focused, actionable design feedback can be hard. Running the Red Light, Yellow Light, Green Light exercise is a constructive way to get feedback from the whole team.
Kyle Fiedler
May 8, 2019
- Design
- Process
- Playbook
Function Composition in Ruby

Ruby 2.6 added function composition to the Proc and Method classes, allowing us to use some functional programming goodness in our Ruby code.
Tom Wey
May 6, 2019
- Ruby
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