Colin Constable, AI6BH When the South Londoner, Colin Constable, traipsed down the road to the local amateur radio society–at the behest of his mother–his 11-year-old self likely never would have guessed that decades later he would be developing an application aimed at fellow “ham” enthusiasts. …

How’s that for a title? I had to use that title so that it would show up in your social media feeds, and that is exactly the point of this post. …

It’s possible with the free & open-source @platform. As developers, we have to make so many decisions when we start a new project: What database should I use? What is the best architecture to handle user data? Where should I host it? How much will it cost? …

At The @ Company, we are building a flat organization, where decisions that impact the success of the company will be made at every level. As a group we put together a list of core company values for everyone to keep in mind when they are making decisions. …

Frequently Asked Questions about our private, open source protocol The @platform is a clever abstraction machine. Perhaps the most abstracted component in the entirety of the @platform is its backend service. Very often, we like to say that the @platform is an “automatic backend service” with no more “database management”…

Frequently Asked Questions about our private, open source protocol When it comes to understanding the @platform and the @sign, our developers are very good at raising questions for parts of our technology that are not so obvious. Although we intended to abstract most of the @platform away for the developers…

A post-cookie-era CRM strategy and marketing mantra While watching a show on Animal Planet with my kids, I experienced something I haven’t in years of owning a DVR: commercials. We couldn’t fast-forward past them. My kids seemed confused; my husband was outraged. …

Frequently Asked Questions about our private, open source protocol Part of the great thing about working at The @ Company is that we get to chat with the developers trying out the @platform. So naturally, when user “paulvipond” sent a message in our Discord channel about The @ Company, our…

By Chris Swan, engineer at The @ Company Last week I wrote about easier automation using GitHub Actions to build multi-architecture Docker images. That led me to another question — how to create the binaries to go into those builds? …