WFH in 1998The heated “Work from Home” debate of 2024 brought me back memories of my first programming job, when I joined a small “dotcom” startup in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, and for the first few months of my employment I quite literally worked from home… in 1998.
The Great Idea of Async WorkAs I mentioned last week, I’ve been in this industry for exactly 25 years. I started my journey as a software developer on Monday, October 6th, 1997. I’ve had the opportunity of sitting down and writing code for a living for a quarter of a century!
Efficient MeetingsIn this post you will find a collection of interesting book quotes about meetings, and how to make them suck less.
About Remote ConferencesAs the pandemic starts challenging all aspects of our life, I tweeted my personal opinion about software conferences in a thread.
Eight Steps To Build A Better Swiss Software IndustryThe Swiss are the best at many, many different domains. Which is a rather surprising and seriously fantastic feat for such a small country with merely eight million people, divided in four quite distinct linguistic groups.
Reducing the Carbon FootprintFrom the beginning, akosma software was created with the objective of providing its customers with high quality software in different platforms. However, we are aware of the complex social and environmental context we are living in, and the current and future challenges generated by our daily actions on the climate of the planet and the fate of our world.