Writing on the Wall: Custom Whiteboards for Your Office

Back in September we outfitted out or office with walls full of long-awaited whiteboards. Whiteboards are great for brainstorming, and they make it easier[..]

Mark Van Holstyn

Geolocation with Bluetooth Beacons

My first project as a software apprentice with Mutually Human is just wrapping up. The other two apprentices and I explored the idea of using Bluetooth[..]

Sydney Ryan

Welcome John, Stella, and Sydney!

John Muyskens, Design Apprentice:

A creator from the start, John spent his wonder years making spy movies, radio shows, and homemade audiobooks with his[..]

Mallory Bartz

Index Your Foreign Keys

We add indexes to our database in order to speed up read operations. Basically, an index is a sorted copy of a particular set of columns the database uses[..]

Ross Hunter

ActiveRecord Associations and You

I love abstraction. It's great to compartmentalize complexity and keep your application modular. SQL is not that. Relying on SQL strings in your code ties[..]

Ross Hunter

iBeacon's Required Advertising Interval May Not Matter

Apple's Proximity Beacon Specification documents what it means for a Bluetooth Low Energy device to be an iBeacon. Within the specification there are[..]

Zach Dennis

Cult of Personality in Tech

I want to start with something simple: I've worked in places where I was unhappy, unproductive, and afraid -- and all the while, I thought I wanted to[..]

Mallory Bartz

Imagining your home with Bluetooth Low Energy enabled things

Bluetooth low energy beacons, iBeacon or not, are changing the way we interact with the world by allowing it to interact with us. This is one realization[..]

Zach Dennis

The Call is Coming from Inside the House

We've been talking a lot about women in engineering lately here at Mutually Human; Samuel recently wrote a post on the subject. I want to write down,[..]

Sam Bleckley

AngularJS Services and Factories Done Right

This post is a continuation of AngularJS: a retrospective

AJ Hekman

Atom is Buggy, Beta, and Slow

Atom is a text editor made by Github. It's in a large, "invite only" beta. It's got bugs, it's slow, and it's sometimes uncomfortable to use. It's also[..]

Sam Bleckley