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Stories from the studio
Two decades of building software, running a remote team, and exploring the craft. Conferences, postmortems, tech experiments, and the occasional long-form ramble.
Tech
How we spent $980,000 on a failed SaaS project
Three months after we closed the sale of WooCart (hosting for WooCommerce stores), our project that was gonna “make it big”, I am ready to review the full…
May 23, 2022 · Dejan Murko
Tech
Standing on the shoulders of giants
Whether we know it or not, we build things based on the work done before us.
Feb 25, 2022 · Gasper Vozel
Tech
Nix build on a diet
At Niteo, we are using nix-shell to build isolated development and production environments.
Feb 13, 2022 · Neyts Zupan
General
Niteo IRL#FML
We were really, really hoping we’d be able to meet up in January for a proper all-company IRL meetup after two years.
Jan 31, 2022 · Dejan Murko
PeopleOps
Sprints are back!
Back in early 2010's, "sprints" were how I lived.
Dec 17, 2021 · Neyts Zupan
Conferences
Founder Summit in Mexico City
I knew I missed conferences.
Nov 8, 2021 · Neyts Zupan
Conferences
Attending MicroConf Europe '21 in Dubrovnik
MicroConf Europe in 2019 was the second to last conference I attended before COVID-19 struck.
Oct 25, 2021 · Dejan Murko
Tech
Deploying +100 servers with GitHub Actions
Last year we decided to replace our Ubuntu servers with NixOS.
Sep 24, 2021 · Gasper Vozel
Tech
Concurrency in Go
Concurrency in Go is an extensive topic, and we won't cover all the things in this post.
Sep 20, 2021 · Gasper Vozel
General
Why we're building a house in the middle of the ocean
Let's get the clickbaiting out of the way first: we're not technically building a house, we're renovating an existing villa.
Aug 7, 2021 · Neyts Zupan
General
Niteo IRL#9
After a year and a half, Niteo finally organized our bi-annual In-Real-Life meetup.
Jul 15, 2021 · Dejan Murko
General
Postmortems
Earlier this year, on one of our half-yearly IRL's, we had a discussion about whether or not we should proceed with a massive upgrade process that had been…
Apr 1, 2021 · Bjørnar Myrheim
General
Niteo IRL: YA'RLY
After our first virtual IRL in July-2020, it's time for our first remote-first IRL.
Jan 27, 2021 · Neyts Zupan
Tech
Lowering H12 errors on Heroku
This post will briefly discuss H12 errors on Heroku, more commonly known as request timeouts, how we tackled them, and how we fixed them.
Nov 25, 2020 · Gasper Vozel
Tech
Staging like it's 2020
Last year, we wrote a blog post on how we use Heroku's Review Apps to create staging apps for every Pull Request submitted to a project's repository.
Sep 14, 2020 · Neyts Zupan
General
Niteo IRL: O'RLY
As a remote-first company, Niteo invests in doing bi-annual IRLs (In Real Life) meetups to get everyone in the same time and space.
Jul 31, 2020 · Marbe Ralozo
Tech
Project isolation beyond requirements.txt
I've been a Python dev for almost 15 years now and I've recently completely overhauled how I keep my development tools and dependencies in check.
Apr 16, 2020 · Neyts Zupan
PeopleOps
Niteo COVID-19 response
This was supposed to be an internal memo sent to my fellow coworkers, but I decided to publish it here on our blog, to encourage other businesses to take…
Mar 12, 2020 · Neyts Zupan
Conferences
Astronomer, psychologist, and MIT professor went to a design conference
The title could sound like the beginning of some joke, but the modern design field attracts more and more professionals that don’t do that much drawing but…
Mar 6, 2020 · Evgenia Mucklow
General
Keeping your head above water by managing your tasks and time
In this blog post, I'll write a little bit about the tools and methods I used to manage the chaos that used to be my workday.
Feb 28, 2020 · Bjørnar Myrheim
General
IRL #8: Bangkok
Wohooo!
Jan 27, 2020 · Neyts Zupan