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Recap of the presentations and discussions from the second Crystal language meetup in Buenos Aires on May 11th 2016.

Juan & I attended EpiHack Myanmar 2016 in Yangon as facilitators, where we built prototypes for improving the local health surveillance system

How does a company tell whether a candidate is the perfect fit for the job, and for the team? At Manas we like doing things our own way, even if it goes against the industry norm. We never rush our hiring process: nothing’s more important than making sure every new member of the team is the right fit for us (and that we are the right fit for them!).

A very important question arises when you’re applying for a job: Is this the right place for me? Doubts, expectations, anxiety and hopes you feel make finding a job a totally unique experience worth sharing. Especially if it’s your first one! This blogpost is about the way I met Manas and how were my first days working with my colleagues.

We set up a Hackathon to built a one-day mobile app for iOS and Android, in order to test drive Facebook’s React Native.

Crystal was born in June 2011 when Ary took the challenge to prove if it was possible to have a compiled Ruby-like language. The name back then was “Joy”, though three days later it was changed to Crystal. At first Crystal was just the result of the experiment.

Recap of a training on InSTEDD platform tools to staff from the mobile VAM project in the World Food Programme

Remember Crystal? Like, that little project of ours that’s completely misrepresented in our own website? Well, fortunately, it seems we’re the only ones doing that - the language just got featured on TheChangelog.

How to use Let’s Encrypt Docker image to cron a process to renew certificates for hosts running behind an nginx reverse proxy.

A wild puzzle appeared!