Coraline Ehmke’s path to the tech industry was non-traditional. It took someone to turn the key for her to find the community that she sought....more.

“You can build an initial model, but you have to keep updating it. You have to continually operate it, doing things incrementally rather than trying...more.

You're on Ops. Debugging Error-s in Invoicing Rails app, as usual. They're stored in MySQL, and accessed through ActiveRecord and some helper methods. They've already...more.

My first book, Design for Safety, is now available for purchase! This book is the culmination of more than 10 years of work. Before joining...more.

Many programmers settle into a work-life balance where their day job pays their bills and their side projects fuel their passions. UI programmer Kofi Gumbs...more.

When we think of technology breaches, we often imagine a nefarious hacker behind a computer screen far away. But for survivors of domestic violence and...more.

What is design? What makes a designer? Big questions require big answers and Thomas and Jerome found the most overqualified person they could: Jon Wettersten,...more.

We're excited to introduce our brand new podcast, Collaborative Craft. The trailer is available now wherever you listen to podcasts. We call Collaborative Craft a...more.

As of September 2020, Moment.js—probably the most popular JavaScript library for handling dates—became a legacy project in maintenance mode. As the Moment team explained: It...more.

Job interviews are an inescapable reality of the labor market, and unfortunately they’re still an imperfect science. Different companies will have different qualities they’re looking...more.

Ports and Adapters is an architecture pattern that aims to decouple your application from the details. By details here, I mean things like: Your web framework...more.

By default, every newly created AWS resource lacks permission to perform any actions. AWS strongly recommends following the security practice of granting least privilege, i.e....more.

There are tons of options out there for deploying websites, but my default approach for years has been: dump it in an S3 bucket with...more.

We founded 8th Light to be a place where our philosophy of approaching software as a craft could thrive. As we’ve grown and evolved, this...more.

A looming deadline. A long list of requirements handed off to the team without their input. No room for flexibility. Just one shot to get...more.