Working Remotely

• On staying focused: Give warning that you’re going to be ‘heads down’ with a good buffer period beforehand
• Set Slack notifications for certain words like your name
• Create advocate for remote people by allowing in office people work remotely for a period of time
• Make sure all communication is happening openly online
• If recording online, always repeat the question

Design for non designers

• Bulma
• Opinionated CSS
• Fontpair
• Typekit to incorporate fonts in pipeline
• Mockingbird
• Do fast iterations - use chrome tools, make changes & screenshot
• Moqups

Books:

• Designing with the Mind in Mind
• Don’t Make Me Think
• Ellen Lupton (several books) Thinking with Type
• The Non Designer's Design Book

Pair Programming

• exercism.io
• Tmux / Wemux
• EP126 of Ruby Roads
• LS-pair Repo: Living Social Readme on How to Pair
• Appear.in - Chrome extension better than hangouts
• Pomodoro for breaks & time box (App store)
• Mob programming
• Ping pong pairing - testing followed by implementation

Tips for getting your first job

• Code for NoVA
• Ruby for Good
• Look for jr apprenticeship programs
• Seniors can learn from pairing with jr's

YAY.JS

• Ponyfoo - weekly email
• Learning JS: client side, server side, NPM, language itself
• JS weekly - weekly email
• List of everything after console.xxxx
• Ember Twiddle
• Read chrome developer tools - apparently it does snippets
• Learn typescript & ES6
• GH repo to-do-list in every framework
• TS Lint for typescript
• Hot loader libraries
• Use object.create - Use prototypes over constructor functions