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title: "Remote Work"
description: "29 posts about Remote Work, summarised, each linking to the original."
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# Remote Work
> 29 posts about Remote Work, summarised, each linking to the original.

## Articles

### [Should I Open Source my Company?](https://yomu.fyi/post/should-i-open-source-my-company.md)
- Company: [Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase.md)
- Author: Ant Wilson
- Published: Mar 25, 2022
- Type: Explainer

Software founders often hesitate to make their companies open source due to concerns regarding code scrutiny, security exploits, and intellectual property theft. Supabase operated as an open-source business from its inception, finding that community scrutiny actually accelerates code refactoring and surfaces security vulnerabilities early through public reporting channels. In addition, rapid execution and developer experience provide stronger competitive defenses against larger competitors than proprietary code obfuscation or software patents. Open repos also transformed the company's hiring strategy by replacing traditional take-home tests and LeetCode interviews with evaluation of real-world pull requests and asynchronous discussions. Finally, external contributors expand product capability by independently developing niche integrations and platform adapters that core startup teams lack the bandwidth to build.


### [Announcing the 🤗 AI Research Residency Program](https://yomu.fyi/post/announcing-the-ai-research-residency-program.md)
- Company: [Hugging Face](https://yomu.fyi/company/hugging-face.md)
- Author: Douwe Kiela
- Published: Mar 22, 2022
- Type: Announcement

Hugging Face launched a nine-month Research Residency Program designed to train participants into impactful machine learning researchers. Residents collaborate directly with researchers from the Science Team to formulate research questions, develop novel machine learning techniques, and openly publish their findings. The initiative specifically encourages proposals from marginalized groups—including women, LGBTQ+ individuals, people of color, and working-class communities—to address disparities exacerbated by artificial intelligence progress. Applicants must demonstrate mathematical and programming abilities through coursework, open-source projects, and end-to-end proposals targeting positive societal impact. The full-time role is fully remote, provides benefits including medical coverage depending on location, and excludes concurrent student enrollment or employment.


### [How to Get an Engineering Internship at Shopify: A Complete Guide](https://yomu.fyi/post/how-to-get-an-engineering-internship-at-shopify-a-complete-guide.md)
- Company: [Shopify](https://yomu.fyi/company/shopify.md)
- Author: 2023-10-18
- Published: Feb 18, 2022
- Type: Tutorial

Shopify’s guide describes its engineering internship program as a way for students, recent graduates, career switchers, and bootcamp graduates to gain hands-on experience through real projects and practical feedback. Internships last three to eight months and span front-end, back-end, infrastructure, data, and mobile development, with three application cycles each year. Applicants submit an online application, complete an Intern Challenge or specialization-specific skills assessment, and progress through a two-phase interview involving a Life Story conversation and a technical solution. The guide identifies collaboration, lifelong learning, curiosity, GitHub experience, remote-work experience, communication, and accountability as important skills, while recommending practice challenges, project portfolios, and company research; 98% of respondents in Shopify’s latest intern satisfaction survey said they would recommend the program.


### [Supabase Beta December 2021](https://yomu.fyi/post/supabase-beta-december-2021.md)
- Company: [Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase.md)
- Author: Paul Copplestone
- Published: Jan 20, 2022
- Type: Announcement

Supabase announced a series of platform updates, educational content, and community milestones for December 2021. PostgreSQL instances now include the pg\_sodium extension, enabling users to perform encryption, decryption, hashing, and cryptographic signing directly within database queries and functions through the Supabase Dashboard. The release details educational video guides demonstrating remote procedure calls from JavaScript, invoking external HTTP endpoints from database functions, and setting up triggers to run SQL on table modifications. In addition to ecosystem updates featuring new Python library releases and integrations with Divjoy and n8n, the project surpassed 26,000 GitHub stars and opened fully remote job positions across engineering, marketing, and human resources.


### [How we launch at Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/post/how-we-launch-at-supabase.md)
- Company: [Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase.md)
- Author: Ant Wilson
- Published: Nov 26, 2021
- Type: Explainer

Following their participation in YCombinator, Supabase sought a structured method to maintain product momentum and recreate the urgency of an accelerator internally. The team established Launch Week, a quarterly shipping sprint using a fixed-timeline and flexible-scope model where a major feature or announcement releases each day for a week. Each cycle begins with a broad distributed planning session that maps high-level goals and generates ideas, followed by execution and finely scheduled launch days covering coordinated social media, blog posts, and community engagement. Following the launch, team members transition into maintenance mode and downtime to handle support, bug fixes, and open-source contributions. Finally, a structured retrospective evaluates successes, failures, and process relevance before carrying lessons into the next planning meeting.


### [Connecting with Mob Programming](https://yomu.fyi/post/connecting-with-mob-programming.md)
- Company: [Shopify](https://yomu.fyi/company/shopify.md)
- Author: 2023-10-18
- Published: Jul 30, 2021
- Type: Explainer

A six-person team drawn from three teams had six weeks to complete an ambitious Shipping project, while several members were new to the domain or company and had not worked together. Pairing was uncommon, and pull requests received little substantive feedback, creating uncertainty about whether the team was growing, connecting, and learning. After Sheldon Nunes introduced mob programming, the team used a shared screen and ten-minute driver rotations, with each driver pushing changes before the next person pulled them. This kept everyone engaged, accelerated reversible decisions, limited context dumps, and made most code review back-and-forth unnecessary. Across nearly daily sessions for three months, the team reported stronger relationships, easier feedback, restored remote learning, and better support for newcomers, while identifying drawing, public discoverable calls, simple environments, cross-disciplinary participation, and breaks as important practices; tests and documentation were considered poor fits for mobbing.


### [How I Define My Boundaries to Prevent Burnout](https://yomu.fyi/post/how-i-define-my-boundaries-to-prevent-burnout.md)
- Company: [Shopify](https://yomu.fyi/company/shopify.md)
- Author: 2023-10-18
- Published: May 6, 2021
- Type: Explainer

The post describes how an intense, single-tasking software leader developed a sustainable way to divide work, family, and recovery time. After 100-hour startup weeks caused scattered thinking, dulled analytical ability, wrist problems, and an inability to type, the author found that a focused 60-hour, 9-to-9 schedule delivered 80 to 90% productivity compared with 100 hours, then shifted to a 9-to-6 model in 2009. The approach separates concentrated work from non-work, schedules blocks for writing, planning, reviewing, and thinking, and uses email and Slack response patterns to communicate boundaries and expectations. It lets lower-priority tasks fall away instead of extending work indefinitely into personal hours. The author says this structure supports recovery, family presence, and prioritization, while emphasizing that each person should experiment with a sustainable model rather than treat nine-to-six as universal.


### [Lessons from Leading a Remote Engineering Team](https://yomu.fyi/post/lessons-from-leading-a-remote-engineering-team.md)
- Company: [Shopify](https://yomu.fyi/company/shopify.md)
- Author: 2023-10-18
- Published: Jul 25, 2019
- Type: Explainer

Managing remote engineering teams can expand hiring beyond office locations, support a more diverse workforce, retain employees through relocations, and enable distributed coverage such as 24/7 support. The guidance describes building such teams around relationships, trust, and communication, with “Default to open internally” and “Charge your trust battery” as supporting cultural values. It recommends asynchronous documentation and discussion in email, GitHub issues, Google Docs, and project systems, supplemented by a fixed weekly synchronous meeting and shared core hours. Managers should also support healthy home workspaces, maintain regular one-on-ones and timely contact, arrange selective in-person sessions, and actively champion remote employees’ visibility, recognition, and career progression. The approach requires deliberate effort but can provide hiring, composition, retention, and strategic benefits.


### [Shopify Devs Share Lessons on Self-Advocacy and Dealing with Adversity - Shopify](https://yomu.fyi/post/shopify-devs-share-lessons-on-self-advocacy-and-dealing-with-adversity.md)
- Company: [Shopify](https://yomu.fyi/company/shopify.md)
- Author: 2023-10-18
- Published: Mar 8, 2019
- Type: Explainer

Shopify’s Behind The Code series profiles Stella Lee, Helen Lin, and Cathryn, three developers discussing self-advocacy, adversity, management, inclusion, and career changes in technology. Lee describes building Shopify Checkout Experience features in TypeScript and Ruby to reduce manual checkout fields, while leading the f(empower) women’s employee resource group; she also discusses imposter syndrome, mentorship, and turning initial “stupid” questions into better ones through timeboxing and research. Lin, a remote Themes team lead, emphasizes aligning projects with long-term company vision, managing stakeholders, staying connected, and directly requesting career opportunities while sharing accomplishments. Cathryn recounts moving from health sciences into programming and stresses evaluating personal goals, hiring a more diverse workforce, and using meeting-room paper pyramids to support inclusive discussion. The article closes with advice to embrace feedback and own both accomplishments and failures.


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