Let’s begin with the basics: user experience (UX) design is how a person feels about using a product, whether that be a website, mobile application, or anything human-computer related. User interface (UI) design, by comparison, is all about the look and feel of the design itself; in other words, the colors or icons a person […]
Learn MoreThis post was written by William Bratches, Lead, Senior Software Engineer at InRhythm. Performance. Accessibility. Offline capability. Search engine optimization (SEO). These are advanced concepts whose analysis has been traditionally dependent on the grizzled experience of a team’s most senior engineers. Except now there’s a tool to do it automatically. Enter Lighthouse. It’s an open-source […]
Learn MoreWriting Immediately Invoked Function Expressions or IIFEs in ES6(Also known as ES2015) just got a lot easier with the introduction of fat arrow functions. (global => { const MY_CONSTANT = ‘api key or something’ let counter = 0 let some_array = [1,2,34,5,6,7] counter = some_array.reduce (total, item) => total + item })(window) This is great. Much shorter […]
Learn MoreThis post is another by InRhythm’s own Sari Morninghawk. For the full post and additional links, check out the original Where My Girls At?” on her website. Women – Major Contributors to Computer Science Many computer science pioneers were women. The first computer programmer and the people who programmed the first digital computers were all women. […]
Learn MoreThis post is one in a series by InRhythm’s own Carl Vitullo. Check out Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and follow Carl on Twitter for more awesome thinking. How often do 2 devs work together on a single task? 3 or more devs? To use the common jargon, pair programming and mob programming. There’s […]
Learn MoreThis post is one in a series by InRhythm’s own Carl Vitullo. Check out Part 1, Part 2 and follow Carl on Twitter for more awesome thinking. How many of the developers have been here less than 6 months? A large number of developers that recently joined means 1 of 2 possibilities: rapid growth, or […]
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