The 3 product principles Uber, Instagram, and Robinhood used to build a killer app

Designed Inconveniences: UX Patterns That Can’t Be Taught

When you enter inside Uniqlo’s NYC Iconic Store in 5th Avenue, the first thing you notice is the three huge escalators that take you to the top and main level of the store.

So You Want to be a Functional Programmer (Part 2)

Taking that first step to understanding Functional…

Android Handler Internals

For an Android application to be responsive, you need to prevent the UI thread from blocking. Responsiveness also increases when blocking or computationally intensive tasks are offloaded to worker threads. The results of these operations often need to update UI components, which…

Are You an Engineer or a Developer?

Did you know software engineers make $13,000 per year more than software developers on average?1 It’s even more than that (a $22,000 difference) in California.

Same job, right? You build software. Get some specs, build some software, make…

The Engineer’s Guide to Desks

Choosing the Optimal Gravity Prevention Surface

Finding Time to Become a Better Developer

There’s no time for anything. At least that’s how it feels doesn’t it? No time to learn…

Software That Writes And Evolves Software

I’ve been quiet lately, largely because I’ve been writing a lot of code. Today, I’m delighted to start talking about some of what we’ve been working on at Atomist.