Bendyworks
bendyworks.com · Company blog · on HN since 2011
Bendyworks, a software consultancy, posts about Elm, Flutter, iOS, Angular, progressive web apps and even Plan 9 on Raspberry Pi.
What HN saysHN commenters link it for a month-long Flutter write-up, a Clojure hash map post and an iOS design piece; one defends its 20% time policy.
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What HN people wrote when they linked it
listrophy · 2012-08-02
While your statements may be true for a larger company, 20% time is working quite well for our consulting company for myriad reasons.
First, of course, there's the opportunity to work on side projects. The only stipulation is that it implicitly (for very loose definitions of implicitly) helps the company. Write open source code, write a blog post, work on your own internal project... but mostly it's been OSS hacking.
Second, it builds slack into our schedule. We (http://bendyworks.com) are a consulting company, and 20% time frees us to "promise" 4 days of work to our clients. And when the inevitable vacation day, sick day or holiday comes up, the client still gets their 4 days of work.
It also lets us push our book club into Friday, which makes it affect our clients' projects even less.
And for a good portion of us, a single day simply isn't enough to satisfy our hunger, so you'll often see a few hanging out at the office, hacking away on the latest clojure, ruby, raspberry pi, or life-hacking project.
abraham · 2019-04-25
I come from a web background and wrote a month of blog posts getting started with Flutter: https://bendyworks.com/blog/a-month-of-flutter
robto · 2017-08-04
Here's a blog post[0] from the guy who implemented Lean Hash-Array Mapped Trie (HAMT) maps for clojurescript. It's really cool stuff!
[0] https://bendyworks.com/blog/leveling-clojures-hash-maps
rimantas · 2014-05-07
Reminds me of this: http://bendyworks.com/geekville/articles/2014/2/single-responsibility-…
Comments are the most interesting part :)