Ditching work and learning fun from each other with ice, snow, and meringue
Our February team retreat took place at a hotel straight out of a Wes Anderson movie, with its quirky decor and vibrant color palette. As we made our way from far and wide to SilverStar Mountain Resort, we were greeted with fluffy, white snow that started to descend. Three flew in: Maria from Greec
June 03, 2024
We Go Together
The Okanagan Valley: a breathtaking region of endless sunshine, renowned wine, and the sweet scent of sage. A place that awakens the senses. As you breathe in the dry air and bask in the warm temperatures, you can feel your muscles release their tension. You can see the natural energy in the rollin
June 09, 2023
What the Fire Danger Class tells us about wildfire risk
There are many steps to fire behaviour which makes it hard to attach a single number or rating to such a complex problem...
May 06, 2021
How to choose a colour scale for data visualization
It turns out colour scales are harder than we thought. In this article, we discuss the visualization of various types of colour schemes...
April 06, 2021
How to implement sliding session refreshes with Apollo and React
Our team is helping to build Clinnect, a service for medical professionals and their staff to send and receive patient referrals. One of our security requirements is that user authentication expire after one hour.
It's easy to set an expiry time on a JWT. But that introduces some problems:
Users
October 13, 2020
Wear a mask, we have some
Masks are a part of the fabric of our society now. They help keep us and those around us safe. Wearing one is a deliberate act that shows you care about others around you. We make all sorts of other fun things besides software (including hats, notebooks, honey, hoodies, coasters, water bottles, etc
October 05, 2020
Sprinting From An Idea to a Product Design in a Few Days
We've been building software for clients for a long time and one of the most effective tools we've discovered for rapidly iterating ideas is the remote design sprint. The process allows us to quickly download a large amount of information from our client's heads into our own, while setting the foun
August 25, 2020
What we're doing to keep conntected while a pandemic is pushing us apart
We had a plan for the pandemic. It was quickly put together, but it was a plan. As a remote-first tech company we naively...
August 20, 2020
Using Data Visualization to Quickly Forecast Avalanches and Enhance Public Safety
At the top of many mountains you'll find a weather station with an anemometer whirring away, measuring wind speed and direction,...
June 22, 2020
Supporting Local Restaurants and Generating $1,000 to the Food Bank
Community has always been one of our team's values, but there's nothing like a global pandemic to reinforce just how important it really is.
Two Story Robot joined Postmark's sponsorship program in 2019. They send us money every quarter to support the coordination of fun events for local developer
June 19, 2020
Deploying Probot Apps on Now v2 🤖
TLDR; Use this package and convert your private key to base64
What will be covered?
Zeit Now is a low cost and easy to use deployment platform. Their serverless infrastructure is a great fit for Probot, a framework for building GitHub Apps that automate and improve your workflow. So what’s the pr
February 28, 2019