How to Shave a Yak
We’ve all been there. You’ve got a complex problem to solve and you have no idea where to start. It’s time to roll »
Lessons Learned Working Remotely
I recently had the opportunity to work remotely while traveling for six weeks with Hacker Paradise (I took the opportunity to hide from the Toronto winter »
The Case of the Hidden Mongo Data
Over here at Vena, we share a docker-compose.yml file to help new developers set up their environments smoothly. I’ve edited this file to mount »
Fast Gaussian-distributed Random Numbers
Recently, profiling showed me that most of the time in the microbenchmark I was running was spent generating the stream of random numbers using Random.nextGaussian. »
Optimizing React Performance with Selective Rendering
Avoiding Avoidable Component Re-renders. My team recently spent some time making performance improvements to a data-reporting front-end we build and maintain at Vena Solutions. The application »
Building Pylon-Free Web Pages: An Intro to Web Accessibility
A few years ago, when I was a student in university, I met a candidate running for student body president who had a disability that required »
Rewriting the JSAddin with React/Redux - 5 Lessons Learned
Over the last two quarters at Vena we had the opportunity to give some love to one of our core codebases — a JavaScript add-in (henceforth known »
Test-Driven Open Source Contributions
In my last post, I discussed implementing and testing the Bulk Insert/Save Pattern in MongoDB. At the end of that post, I alluded to an »
Making Feminists Apps One HackNight at a Time
At Vena we have weekly events where we order food and stay at the office and code/design/solve interesting problems together. This post is about »
Implementing and Testing the Bulk Insert/Save Pattern in MongoDB
Here at Vena, we use MongoDB pretty heavily in our back end stack. We also are working on making automated testing a larger, more prevalent part »