We were annoyed with the slow performance of our frontend unit tests, so we made them much faster! It turned out that swapping out the test runner is an easy and efficient way to keep the migration effort low, while reaping the benefits of much faster execution times.

This is an interview with Small Improvement’s software developer Jesper Oskarsson about how the development team works together, what the tech stack looks like, and how big feature releases are tackled. If you want to read on, you find another developer interview here. Hey Jesper! You recently had y...

This is an interview with Small Improvement’s software developer Laura Sochaczewski about how the development team works together, how sprints are organized, and how developers stay connected with customers. If you want to read on, you find another developer interview here. Hey Laura! You joined Sma...

Let’s start with a beautiful quote, which also can act as a great summary of what I want to share: “If you need a readme.md explaining how to build a project, you already failed” – Eelco Dolstra With this in mind, try to think back if you ever tried to follow along in a tutorial […]

We all love reading about the latest software developments trends and buzzwords but they can often turn out to be just that, buzzwords. For us at Small Improvements, Domain Driven Design (DDD) has really lived up to it’s own hype though and helped us build better software, faster and fewer bugs to b...

At Small Improvements, we are always keen to learn about our customers and how we can make the product better for them. Speaking to customers is great (and we do it all the time) but using the data we hold to find trends and usage patterns helps to find things that the customer won’t tell […]

If there was one word to describe the theme of JSConfIS it would be experience. Beyond the wonder and fantastical environment of the conference’s location and backdrop (hosted in Reykjavik, Iceland at their world-famous Harpa concert hall) – the majority of talks focused on topics relating to both t...

We held our first accessibility workshop and in this post, we highlight our approach and key takeaways.

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code is a powerful code editor — let's look at lesser-known features, customizations and extensions that make you more productive!

We recently reached the size of 14 people in Development, and our goal is to get to 16 developers/designers in the next couple of months. An interesting question we faced and discussed in this context is that of “optimal team size”. In the past year we’ve typically worked in teams of three or four, ...

At Small Improvements we each have a learning budget and get to choose which conferences we attend. It might seem a bit of an odd choice then that I stepped off the plane in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius on a cold November afternoon. I was there for BuildStuff, a pretty special conference. The line...