This is what I’m doing after Remote Year
This is what I’m doing after Remote Year What happens when you have to change your normal? The air in Phnom Penh reeks of motorcycle exhaust, barbecue smoke, and uncertainty. With less than two months...
View ArticleCreating design-driven data visualization
Creating design-driven data visualization – InVision Blog by Margaret Kelsey on January 16, 2017 View all posts In our first DesignTalk of 2017, Hayley Hughes shares examples and insights from her work...
View ArticleHow to work remotely with your development team
Remote work has been on the rise in recent years . On Google Trends, the term “digital nomads” is becoming more and more popular. Before beginning MVP space, we were already working as a remote...
View ArticleAgile Retrospectives: Why your team should be having them, even if you’re not...
Agile Retrospectives: Why your team should be having them, even if you’re not in the tech industry. Retro-what? What are retrospectives? Retrospective is simply defined as, “looking back on or dealing...
View ArticleThe Remote Experience: Preface
The Remote Experience: Preface Five years ago, I walked away from a life that made me profoundly unhappy. At the age of 24 I became fed up with living with little money and no career in the city that I...
View ArticleReimagine Project Constraints as a Blank Canvas
When I imagine a blank canvas, I think about the time I visited Paul Cézanne’s studio in the South of France. Perfectly restored, Cézanne’s studio perched above Aix-en-Provence brought to life his...
View ArticleThe Auth0 Marketing Website Has Been Localized for the Japanese Market
BELLEVUE, WA – Konnichiwa! We are pleased to announce that the Auth0 marketing website has been localized for the Japanese market. Auth0 makes it simple and easy to add authentication and authorization...
View ArticleFiguring out UX flow for better team cooperation
The start of development has always been a challenge for me, because explaining UX work to developers is hard. Traditionally, I’d walk everyone through a prototype, summarize a roadmap, explain...
View Article6 key things all UX designers should keep in mind
User experience designers never stop learning. Sometimes the lesson is eye-opening and lands you at a brilliant solution, while other times it shoves you straight back to square one. I’ve spent years...
View ArticleFlatiron School joins the GitHub Student Developer Pack
Flatiron School has joined the Student Developer Pack to offer students one free month of their Community-Powered Bootcamp, a flexible online course in web development. The Community-Powered Bootcamp...
View Article9 Social Media Goals You Can Set for Your Business (and How to Track Them)
The thing we love most at Buffer is to help you succeed at social media. And a key part of social media success is knowing which goals and targets to set for your team. Without goals, it’s hard to know...
View ArticleInside Upwork: Productivity Tips from Upwork HQ
One thing we all have in common, no matter what our background or area of specialty, is the desire to make the most of our time. Whether it’s to create more leisure time, or to get more work done,...
View ArticleBuilding apps for kids: The definitive guide
I remember Mark Zuckerberg once saying “I definitely wouldn’t have gotten into programming if I hadn’t played games as a kid.” This correlation isn’t a surprise, although it did spark a revelation when...
View ArticleNavigate file history faster with improved blame view
Whether you’re debugging a regression or trying to understand how some code came to have its current shape, you’ll often want to see what a file looked like before a particular change. With improved...
View ArticleHow We Set and Measure Ambitious Social Media Goals at Buffer [2017 Version]
Do you have big goals you’d like to achieve in 2017? We do, too. In fact, this is our vision for Q1: Establish Buffer as the premier social media tool for businesses and teams via a focus on branding,...
View ArticleHow to create an application in Kotlin and secure it using JSON Web Tokens...
TL;DR In this article, we’ll learn how to create a simple application using Kotlin, a statically typed programming language that targets the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). We’ll secure all communication...
View ArticleAvoid Burnout by Evaluating New Opportunities
Editor’s note: The following post by guest author Camille E. Acey is based on her Nov. 2016 talk at SupConf, a conference for customer support professionals. If I had my way, I’d make quitters out of...
View ArticleBuilding and Securing Koa and Angular 2 with JWT
TL;DR Koa is a web framework for Node.JS that is based on generators, a new ES6 feature, providing a simpler and more concise API. In this article, we will build a grocery list application, with an...
View ArticleAn Intro to Software Testing—and Why You Shouldn’t Skip It
Every piece of software starts with a purpose. Countless hours later, how can you feel confident you’ve succeeded? By testing your software. With tight budgets and pressure to ship quickly, some people...
View ArticleGitHub data, ready for you to explore with BigQuery
GitHub data is available for public analysis using Google BigQuery, and we’d like to help you take it for a spin. If you’d like to find out more about what data is available and how it’s been used so...
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