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2023

Illustration: Sonus Vox INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Productivity Sonus Vox A comparison of different microphone categories.
Illustration: Unleashing the Beta Beast: Introducing the Mind-Reading Q&A Tool INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Insights Unleashing the Beta Beast: Introducing the Mind-Reading Q&A Tool An OpenAI-based Q&A tool that answers your questions about PSPDFKit.
Illustration: Navigating Remote Onboarding: A Software Developer's Perspective INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Remote Work • Tips Navigating Remote Onboarding: A Software Developer's Perspective An in-depth look at onboarding as a software developer, including tips and tricks to make it easier.
Illustration: How a Tech Writer Tried to Build a Chatbot with OpenAI and Lived to Tell the Tale INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Insights How a Tech Writer Tried to Build a Chatbot with OpenAI and Lived to Tell the Tale My week with OpenAI, or how I learned to stop worrying and love ChatGPT
Illustration: My Engineering Transition from Mobile to Backend DEVELOPMENT  |  Culture • Insights My Engineering Transition from Mobile to Backend A peek into the process of an engineer switching teams at PSPDFKit.

2022

Illustration: A Perfect Gift TUTORIAL  |  Culture • Productivity A Perfect Gift Learn how to modify a mechanical keyboard
Illustration: Road to Polyglot Development DEVELOPMENT  |  Android • Web • Development • Culture Road to Polyglot Development A blog post outlining my transition to polyglot development for the web.
Illustration: My Second PSPDFKit Retreat: From a Bootstrapped Startup, to a Company of 100+ INSIGHTS  |  Company • Culture • Remote Work My Second PSPDFKit Retreat: From a Bootstrapped Startup, to a Company of 100+ A recap of our most recent retreat and a comparison to my first PSPDFKit retreat.
Illustration: The Many Pets of PSPDFKit COMPANY NEWS  |  Culture • Remote Work The Many Pets of PSPDFKit AKA: Pspsps, come here PSPDFKittens

2021

Illustration: The Terminal Setups of PSPDFKit COMPANY NEWS  |  Culture • Remote Work The Terminal Setups of PSPDFKit How the engineers building an industry-leading SDK use the command line.
Illustration: The Case for Ad Hoc Engineer 1:1s with Newcomers INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Remote Work The Case for Ad Hoc Engineer 1:1s with Newcomers Or, the unspoken challenges of onboarding engineers in 2020 and beyond.
Illustration: While We Work: How We Stay Productive INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Remote Work • Productivity While We Work: How We Stay Productive Some people at PSPDFKit share their tips for being productive.
Illustration: How We Forge Togetherness INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Remote Work How We Forge Togetherness As a remote-first company, we fully understand that to work well together, we have to create connections and understand each other.

2020

Illustration: Where We Work INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Remote Work • Productivity • Insights Where We Work A blog post showing a glimpse of where our people work.
Illustration: Our Journey toward Using More Inclusive Language at PSPDFKit INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Insights Our Journey toward Using More Inclusive Language at PSPDFKit A blog post about why and how we are trying to use more inclusive language.
Illustration: Sponsoring CocoaPods INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Productivity Sponsoring CocoaPods PSPDFKit is sponsoring the costs of hosting the CocoaPods CND.
Illustration: Remote Work: How to Overcome Common Struggles of Working from Home INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Remote Work • Productivity • Tips Remote Work: How to Overcome Common Struggles of Working from Home This article describes some struggles first-time remote workers may face and provides some strategies to help overcome them. This is part one of four of our remote work series.
Illustration: Becoming a Better Engineer by Doing Support INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Support • Insights Becoming a Better Engineer by Doing Support How being on support duty helps me improve as an engineer, and why I think everyone should try it.

2019

Illustration: From Zero to Hero: How I Got a Full-Time Job in Tech INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Insights • Tips From Zero to Hero: How I Got a Full-Time Job in Tech A political scientist turned web engineer describes her journey of transformation. She also reveals a few aspects that can make or break an internship in tech (and in general).
Illustration: How We Work at PSPDFKit INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Remote Work • Insights How We Work at PSPDFKit A post about how we work at PSPDFKit.
Illustration: WWDC for First-Timers, 2019 Edition DEVELOPMENT  |  Culture • Productivity • Insights WWDC for First-Timers, 2019 Edition Here's how to get the most out of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference.
Illustration: Contributing to Google's PDFium COMPANY  |  Culture • PDFium Contributing to Google's PDFium A little inside look at which PDF engine we use and why.
Illustration: Remote Work: What I've Learned from a Decade as a Remote Software Engineer INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Remote Work • Productivity • Insights Remote Work: What I've Learned from a Decade as a Remote Software Engineer Sharing a few tips and things I've learned from my 10 years working as a remote software engineer.
Illustration: How PSPDFKit Succeeds at Being a Remote Company INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Remote Work How PSPDFKit Succeeds at Being a Remote Company How a culture of trust, flexibility, discipline, and camaraderie helps us succeed.
Illustration: My First PSPDFKit Retreat INSIGHTS  |  Culture My First PSPDFKit Retreat A freelancer is invited to her first PSPDFKit retreat. In this blog post, she shares her experience.
Illustration: Eight Hours: Sleep INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Remote Work • Productivity Eight Hours: Sleep Can't concentrate during the day? Sleep may be the key to ensuring you do.
Illustration: Eight Hours: Recreation INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Remote Work • Productivity Eight Hours: Recreation Focus on making the most of life outside your work in an effort to improve your working life.
Illustration: Eight Hours: Work INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Remote Work • Productivity Eight Hours: Work Do we spend our working hours efficiently, or can we optimize the way we work?
Illustration: A Modern Approach to Work: Pursuing Mindfulness, Purpose, and Efficiency INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Remote Work • Productivity A Modern Approach to Work: Pursuing Mindfulness, Purpose, and Efficiency Your work life extends beyond the eight hours a day you spend working. This series explores the division of time over 24 hours and how the way we spend that time can affect our workday and vice versa.

2018

Illustration: Effective Remote Communication INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Remote Work Effective Remote Communication Communication is hard — especially for remote companies. Here's how we organize communication at PSPDFKit.
Illustration: Swift by Sundell Podcast with Peter Steinberger INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Insights Swift by Sundell Podcast with Peter Steinberger On July 19, our CEO, Peter Steinberger, was interviewed by John Sundell on his Swift by Sundell podcast.
Illustration: How to Use Slack and Not Go Bananas INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Remote Work • Tips How to Use Slack and Not Go Bananas Slack is both amazing and awful. At a time when many companies quit Slack, we refined our processes to make it work well for us.

2017

Illustration: 4 Steps to a Successful Company Retreat INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Remote Work 4 Steps to a Successful Company Retreat
Illustration: Women in Software Development? YES PLEASE! INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Insights Women in Software Development? YES PLEASE! We celebrate International Women's Day at PSPDFKit!
Illustration: Everybody Designs: An Agile Approach to Design DEVELOPMENT  |  Culture • UI/UX Everybody Designs: An Agile Approach to Design How PSPDFKit uses an agile approach for design work
Illustration: What Cultural Diversity Means to Us INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Remote Work • Insights What Cultural Diversity Means to Us Our execution of cultural diversity
Illustration: Making the Most of Remote Work INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Remote Work • Tips Making the Most of Remote Work At PSPDFKit, we strive to hire the best people for the job, regardless of where they are in the world. Here, I want to share how I’ve been making the most of remote work.
Illustration: 2016 In Review COMPANY  |  Culture • Insights 2016 In Review 2016 has been our most successful, exciting and overall transforming year so far since the inception of PSPDFKit as a company.

2016

Illustration: Hiring a distributed team INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Remote Work • Tips Hiring a distributed team Who you hire can have a dramatic effect on your team’s culture, company’s productivity and, overall, is the most influential factor in determining the success or failure of a company. Over the past six years at PSPDFKit, we’ve slowly learned what’s important, what works, and what doesn’t work, at least for us.
Illustration: The Importance of Retreats for a Remote Company INSIGHTS  |  Culture • Remote Work The Importance of Retreats for a Remote Company