Engineering
Programmer’s Best Friend: The Mechanical Keyboard
Other professionals use professional tools, yet we spend our whole day in front of a $5 rubber dome keyboard. Investing in a nice mouse for gaming or productivity is nothing new, so why are keyboards neglected? It is the single most touched item of developers (especially Linux nerds with tiling
Find the purpose
Three months back, I started my journey of VP of Engineering in Mews. In the following blogpost, I'd like to elaborate on my experience and discoveries so far. Build on your Experience On my path, I was fortunate to work with leaders worth following. I learned a lot from others.
Scaling tech teams: Key lessons learned
The very first TechUncovered event focused on the challenges of building and scaling engineering teams, career development, and maturing processes. Scaling tech teams is not a simple task, it's tough work. As we witness the Prague startup scene constantly growing and getting more and more into the scaleup stage, we
Lunch Automation for Developers: The Story of Kebab Wars
In Mews we often use phrases like `bring hotels to the 21st century` or `join the revolution` of the hospitality industry. One of our T-shirts has the catchphrase `Automate this!`. What differentiates Mews from most other companies is the way we truly mean what we say. Even internally. Hell, mostly
CI as continuous improvement
Everybody in tech world understands CI as continuous integration, but the other and maybe even more important meaning of this abbreviation is continuous improvement. It is easy to say that we encourage progress and learning, but as people get overwhelmed with daily tasks, these more abstract goals are pushed to
Sideproject Story: Building Face Authentication in Lisbon
The problemTyping in username and password every time you want to access the system can be tiresome. Ideally, you want to use some password manager. At Mews, we love 1Password! And we wish also our clients would use a similar solution. Unfortunately, we have noticed there are cases of freely