Published in Hireproof·Oct 24, 2022Big Twitch Energy: How live streaming made me a better developer.It’s been a year since I started streaming. In that time, I’ve streamed for almost 800 hours, accumulated 2.1k followers, chatted with 1.7k unique chatters, 124k chat messages, 32k unique viewers, and 1.23 million minutes watched. …Twitch5 min readTwitch5 min read
Published in Hireproof·Aug 30, 202212 actionable ways to improve candidate experience in 2022It’s a candidate’s market, expand your candidate pool and improve your reputation with some candidate-first easy wins. Salary range in the job description Salary is the most important aspect of a job, more important than company culture or employer brand. Not having a range introduces mismatched expectations. …Interviewing3 min readInterviewing3 min read
Published in Hireproof·May 17, 2022Working with a design firm in 2022Context Rebranding is perhaps a bit of a misnomer for us, as Hireproof, like many startups, never had a brand to begin with. Move fast break stuff applied heavily to our brand and design in the early days, as none of our founders had experience with branding. We had opinions on…Web Design7 min readWeb Design7 min read
Feb 19, 2020Vue vs ReactFrontend Project from start to finish — Hi, Nick Barth here, I’m an experienced freelance fullstack developer, currently on contract for Braingineers. In the past I have created and maintained both Vue and React production apps, but on this project, I had the opportunity to build two apps simultaneously. I thought this would be a fun opportunity…React9 min readReact9 min read