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We’ve started asking “why not” when it comes to transparency. This post explains transparency in engineering.

Can We Open Source Our Whole Code Base?

As a company that already has all of their employees’ salaries online, we often get asked how far we will go with transparency. On the engineering team, this is challenging because we need to balance our value of transparency, with the security of our product and users, so the “how far” question is a tough …

Transparency in Engineering: Can We Open Source Our Whole Code Base?

As a company that already has all of their employees’ salaries online, we often get asked how far we will go with transparency. On the engineering team, this is challenging because we need to balance our value of transparency, with the security of our product and users, so the “how far” question is a tough […]

At Buffer, we’re a fully distributed team. Today, I dig into some of the challenges & advantages of being a remote developer working across timezones.

How we develop Buffer over 10 different timezones

Workplace of the future

Working Remotely: How we develop Buffer over 10 different timezones

The solution to deeper, more fulfilling personal relationships came to me at work. Here's how it can work for you, too.

How Mentoring at Work Helped My Personal Relationships

The Simple Way I Strengthened My Personal Relationships (Without Leaving Work)

A collection of posts on Self Improvement

Self-Improvement

One of our Buffer developers is a bitcoin believer - so much that he's getting paid in bitcoin for part of his salary. Here's how and why.

I'm Getting Paid in Bitcoin: Here's How and Why

I’m Getting 5% of My $96K Salary Paid in Bitcoin: Here’s How and Why

What started as a lean experiment has become a key element of the Buffer product. See the inside story of how Buffer's content suggestions came to be.

Growing Buffer's Content Suggestions to 20K Shares a Day

Buffer’s Content Suggestions: From Lean Experiment to 20,000 Shares a Day

Learn how this engineer toured Asia. This post shares the experience on how this engineer toured Asia working for a distributed team.

How I Toured Asia Working as an Engineer for a Distributed Team

In August I was given the amazing opportunity to join Buffer as a front-end developer. At that time I was living in Taipei teaching English. Buffer is a distributed company so while I coded for them I was able to continue teaching. At the end of October, I left my teaching job because I just …

From Taiwan to Bali: How I Toured Asia, While Working as an Engineer for a Distributed Team

In August I was given the amazing opportunity to join Buffer as a front-end developer. At that time I was living in Taipei teaching English. Buffer is a distributed company so while I coded for them I was able to continue teaching. At the end of October, I left my teaching job because I just […]

Learn how this engineer toured Asia. This post shares how this engineered toured Asia while working for a distributed team.