In our last installment, I introduced our
distributed workplace
and why we prefer it over a traditional office. Over the years, we’ve learned a lot about
how
to make a distributed workplace, well… work.
The single most important we learned …
Today we’re introducing a new member of the Lincoln Loop family,
BotBot.me
. At the moment, BotBot is beautiful hosted
IRC
logs (try
#django
or
#go-nuts
). We built it for people who love
IRC
and we want your advice …
First off, realtime websites are hard. The current toolset is rudimentary. When I first started building
Ginger
, I thought I must be doing it wrong because of all the trial-and-error and pieces I was building from scratch. After watching …
Here’s a map of our current offices at Lincoln Loop:
That’s 10 people, 5 timezones, and 3 continents for those of you counting at home. I use the term “office” loosely because we don’t have a central office in the …
One of my recent tasks in
Ginger
was to ensure that we weren’t leaking referrer
URL
s when you click on an external link in Ginger. It seemed like an easy task and one that’s probably been solved before. What …
Our new product
Ginger
relies heavily on
Backbone.js
for most of the client-side functionality (you can read about our full web-stack
here
). Our JavaScript guru
Marco
built the initial prototype and then was pulled away by client work. I …
As mentioned in my previous post, everyone at Lincoln Loop sets their own salary. It’s another radical divergance from the business norm that we borrowed from the book of Ricardo Semler.
Every six months, I meet with each of our …
Maverick
by
Ricardo Semler
was an eye-opening read for me a while back. It is a detailed account of his (highly profitable) company which is a radical departure from the traditional workplace.
Rework
(published over 20 years later) reads like …
For our latest product,
Ginger
, we wanted to marry the real-time functionality we needed with the traditional Django stack we know and love. After some false starts and falling on our faces in the beginning, we ended with a …
Development is a creative endeavor. Often developers are creating something where there was once nothing. For most us, the thought of being productive for 8 consecutive hours 5 days a week is laughable. 2-3 hours on a single problem is …