We held our first accessibility workshop and in this post, we highlight our approach and key takeaways.
Our journey migrating 100k lines of code from AngularJS to React (Chapter 1)
Intro This is the first post of a series explaining the story and technical learnings we …
Redesigning the Small Improvements emails
During Ship It Week, I took the opportunity to redesign our emails. The goal was to …
A Facelift for the Font Family
Today we’re excited to announce a new makeover for the Small Improvements application; a new …
Looking Back at GOTO 2016
By Peter Crona and Michael Ruhwedel First of all, it was an amazing conference as …
Using Haskell to Find Unused Spring MVC Code
Like a lot of people at Small Improvements I’m fascinated by functional programming. For a while I’ve been thinking about cleaning up a little in our codebase, mainly the backend which is written in Java. I have known for ages that Haskell is really good with abstract syntax trees (ASTs) and was playing with the thought of creating a Haskell tool that would help me with this.
Onboarding your Team to React + Redux
Eventually the time will come when your team wants to use React + Redux for …
Building the Activity Stream. Part 1: Product Design
We recently launched our new Activity Stream. What began as a small idea turned into …
Running our App Engine Application in the Flexible Environment (Java 8)
It’s no secret that we at Small Improvements love to use cutting edge technologies for our …
Hack It, Ship It!
Small Improvements conducts Hackathons every few months which usually involves two days of hacking on …
More than just slinging code
I like to think of myself as a coder of convenience. I often tell myself …
Creating a SI Style Guide
After a significant project involving making Small Improvements responsive, we came up with some UI …
React Europe 2016
In the past, we at Small Improvements have sponsored various Angular Conferences and Meetups. So …
