The Status Hero Blog
Field dispatches for humans working with other humans to get stuff done.
Team Communication
Daily Standups are Broken
The in-person stand-up meeting hasn't kept up with the evolution of how we work. Let's fix that.
Michael Karampalas
February 28, 2022 2 minute read
Product Updates
Status Badges for Your Team Dashboard
Status badges aren't just for repo READMEs. Add badges to your team's dashboard for real-time updates from your critical systems.
February 27, 2022 2 minute read
Productivity & Estimation
On Meetings and Wasting Time
Human progress comes from collaboration. People don’t hate meetings necessarily, they just hate having their time wasted.
Henry Poydar
February 26, 2022 3 minute read
Product Updates
Supercharge Your Team’s Check-Ins with Zapier
Use our new Zapier integration to connect Status Hero with thousands of apps and tools your team uses everyday.
February 25, 2022 2 minute read
Case Studies
Case Study: CodersRank
CodersRank analyzes public data from sources like Github and Stack Overflow so you can see how you stack up against software developers across the world.
December 11, 2021 3 minute read
Engineering
Serving a static blog from a subdirectory with Cloudflare Workers
When we first published our blog a couple of years back, we decided to use Jekyll. It’s simple, Ruby-based, established, and it does this one job really well. We’ve stuck with it. According to the experts, there’s an SEO edge to hosting your blog in...
October 10, 2021 2 minute read
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