Signs It’s Time to Start Building Custom Software – Part 1
Making an investment in software that is unique to your business is not something you enter into lightly. While no solution is ever completely unique, there is always some part that is hand-crafted to meet the specific business needs of each client. If you've done any...
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Welcome, Mitch!
We are so excited to welcome our newest Human - Mitch Kett! Mitch has been consulting and developing software for over 10 years and brings tons of experience and knowledge to the team. Read on to learn more about his software journey! Mitch’s software journey didn’t...
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Run a Ruby Slack Bot on AWS Lambda
Learn how to create a Slack bot in Ruby and Deploy it to AWS Lambda. With AWS’s recently added support for Ruby 2.5, it’s easy for Rubyists to explore the world of Serverless Architecture.
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Welcome Nate!
We are thrilled to introduce another new member of our Mutually Human family - Nate Eizenga! Nate is our newest software developer. He brings both value and experience, so we can’t wait to see all the amazing work he’s going to do! Read on and learn a little bit more...
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Welcome Monica!
We are so excited to welcome another member to the Mutually Human Family - Monica McJunkin! Read on to learn a little more about Monica and the unique skills she brings to the software development table! Monica fell in love with software by starting out on an Apple II...
read moreEnd-to-end testing w/Rails 5+, Angular 5+, Capybara, and Selenium: Part 3 of 4
In Part 2 of this series we completed the task of setting up end-to-end testing with an Angular 6 frontend and a Rails 5 API backend, from scratch. It was awesome. Today, we’re going to walkthrough the Capybara configuration we ended up with in Part 2. Originally,...
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End-to-end testing w/Rails 5+, Angular 5+, Capybara, and Selenium: Part 2 of 4
This post provides a walkthrough or setting up end-to-end testing with Angular and Rails from scratch. See the whole process, learn every step, identify and resolve every error, and ship higher quality products.
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A Case for View Specs in Rails
What makes view specs valuable? When is a good time to write them? What are the trade-offs? This post presents a case which attempts to answer some of these questions.
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End-to-end testing w/Rails 5+, Angular 5+, Capybara, and Selenium: Part 1 of 4
There are many ways to end-to-end test an application. This post is the first in a series that walks you through the thinking, code, and trade-offs of how we approached end-to-end testing in a recent project.
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The Curious Case of Cursor Jumping
Have you seen a cursor, jump? Maybe you’ve heard about it from a user (directly or secondhand)? Here we dive in to find out just what drives this chaotic ghost in the machine.
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Using Discrete Logarithms to Randomize a Million Integers
Using Discrete Logarithms to Randomize a Million Integers
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Keydown is the only keyboard event we need
Keydown is likely the only keyboard event we need. The others, who needs them? Not us! Okay, maybe keyup goes on the shelf just in case, but surely keypress can be tossed out.
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The UX of UX—Your Colleagues Are Users
The UX of UX—Your colleagues are users
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Automating Project Creation in OmniFocus
Programming can take many forms. The automation features on iOS are the next frontier of shell scripting.
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Keeping JSON Key Casing Consistent over HTTP Requests and WebSockets: A Ruby on Rails Short
Learn how to use the olive_branch gem to keep JSON data consistently cased for data over stock HTTP and WebSockets connections.
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Welcome Jenna
Today, we want to recognize and celebrate the newest member of the Mutually Human family — Jenna Elamin-Mueller! Jenna is an amazing developer. We’re so excited to have her as a part of our team!
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