What we did when our company was closed — September 1st, 2018 marks Inaka’s 8th anniversary. But this time, it’s a very special one: It’s also the first anniversary of the Inakos as a community. A year ago, when we were about to celebrate 7 years of existence, our company (Inaka) was closed. At that point, most of us…

As you might have noticed, we’re in the process of republishing stories from the old inaka blog that was taken down recently. I would like to use this entry to republish 3 of our oldest ones. …

An old story, worth re-telling — Almost 3 years ago, in a blog that’s now gone, we published a story about the lessons we learned in our 5 years of existence. We’ll publish something new soon, when we reach our 8th anniversary. …

Last Friday it was the first Erlang and Elixir Conference in Argentina (and in fact, in Latin America). For people that are not used to attend this type of events, the Erlang Conference in San Francisco is the most important event related to this language (at the moment) and we were really happy to be granted the honor of organizing the first of, we hope, many conferences to come here in Argentina.

It has become quite common nowadays to find publications about anything you can imagine on the web: food, social relationships, how to solve x problem, news about new products, etc. There are different sites and forums where you can find that information, and in general they are organized by one…

Spelling CI / Sheldon You probably know the feeling… …when you fix a very important issue in that “super cool” open-source project. You keep all your attention to those parts of the code where your changes could affect something, you run the tests until you can confirm: “It is fixed now, I am sure”; but then again, you run…

Sometimes, you can find yourself having to reverse geocode a large bunch of points. That is, finding an address from a coordinate pair (latitude and longitude). …

Have you ever played or been asked to play 20 questions? In the game, one person chooses an object which is not revealed to the other players. The point of the game is for the other players to guess the object by asking only 20 very smart questions. At Inaka…