Behind the scenes at Whitesmith

RubyConf Brazil Overview

Ruby is awesome, and its community is better than ever. This year’s RubyConf Brasil is the perfect example of that…

Giving our hawk a makeover

Who we are

March Monthly Gathering

As discussed at the beginning of this year, we need to accelerate our progress in terms of craftsmanship and mastery…

Remote-friendly, remote-first, remotes.in

From the beginning, remote work has been a part of Whitesmith’s core culture and we try to ingrain this “remote spirit” not only to the newcomers but also to the current team. We actually encourage our “local” workers to be remote as well so they can feel a…

How we are measuring Happiness at work

I’ve been a Quantified Self enthusiast for several years — even before I knew the term existed. I believe the act of measuring certain parts of our lives provide us valuable information about ourselves, that we can use to act upon. This can also be applied on an…

January Monthly Gathering (part 1)

First of all, let me own the responsibility of not giving a December update. It was part of the…

Remotes.in was hunted

First things first: do you know what is Remotes.in? Remotes.in born to give all our remote colleagues a presence in the…

Our internal hackathons

At Whitesmith we believe in hackathons as a way to level up our craftsmanship in a few areas, but also because they…