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The Claude Code team setup we built so it actually works
We’d spent months learning to work with Claude Code individually, and the team had arrived, without any coordination, at the same conclusions. The next challenge was of a different order: building a Claude Code team setup that worked consistently across the whole organisation, instead of every session starting from scratch. The moment that became obvious […]
AI frontend testing: a complete workflow, not just code generation
If you have ever asked an AI agent to write a test for you and ended up watching it run, fail and then tweak the test until it passed —even when the implementation was wrong— this article is for you. AI already writes a meaningful share of the frontend code that goes through my hands. […]
What You Discover When an Engineering Team Documents Their Claude Code Usage Independently
A few weeks ago I asked each person on Orbitant’s engineering team to independently document their learnings with Claude Code: what worked, what didn’t, which configurations they’d adopted, and what they’d discovered on their own. No prior meeting, no sharing answers before responding — just their own notes and weeks of real usage on production […]
From accountant to developer: my career change into tech (and what came after)
Even though it’s been a few years now, I still vividly remember the reasons and feelings that led me to rethink my professional life. It was a mix of monotony, lack of challenge and creativity, no sense of progress. My job required no effort whatsoever — neither physical nor intellectual — and that, for me, […]
Engineering career paths: 3 growth tracks no one explains
As you grow, your success stops being measured by the tickets you close and starts being measured by what your team manages to deliver. JORGE CASTAÑOLead FrontEnd Engineer What happens when you’ve been coding for years and you realize the next step isn’t simply picking up a new framework? At the latest edition of the […]
The Recipe Behind High-Performance Software Engineering Teams
In a previous article, I spoke about psychological safety and how important it is to remove fear from your organisation in order to enable high-performance engineering teams. To support this idea and unlock the real potential, over the years I have found two main sets of instruments that need to be present in any organisation: […]
How We Turn Orbitant’s Technical Knowledge into Published Content with AI
Orbitant has a knowledge-sharing culture you don’t often find in a consultancy our size. Across every department — Engineering especially — people document technical decisions, debate approaches on Slack, present at weekly Knowledge Sharing sessions, and challenge each other’s work on real projects. That knowledge has genuine value for other professionals in the field. The […]
Remote Working: Tips and Tricks
Let’s be honest: the landscape has changed since the pandemic boom. In Europe, fully remote positions have dropped sharply from 24% to 14% between 2022 and 2024, and the percentage of people working entirely from the workplace increased from 36% in 2023 to 41% in 2024. Big corporations are leading the push back to the […]
Does clean code matter when AI writes the code?
The code no longer needs to be maintained by a human. So what’s the point of clean code? MARCO FUCCI DI NAPOLICo-founder rowads.studio I came across this in a LinkedIn post by Marco Fucci di Napoli, founder of Rowads Studio — a five-person team that dropped code reviews entirely after adopting what they call extreme […]
Building Your Best Knowledge Base
Every company has a “secret sauce”, a way to do things, a recipe (whether the team are aware or not). When the organisation is small things can be chaotic, processes may not be entirely defined and the team knowledge may not even be fully formed. However, when the size of your team (and/or your project) […]
Cryptography in Node.js: hashing, encryption and trust from scratch
How many times have you used JWT, HTTPS, or verified a binary’s hash without really understanding what was happening under the hood? Cryptography is everywhere in modern development — and understanding its mechanics changes the way you design systems. Two researchers, a hostile network, and no guarantee the message arrives unread or untampered. This is […]
The Operating Principles That Define Orbitant
Principles are not slogans or motivational posters on a wall. They are the backbone of how we think, decide, and operate every single day at Orbitant. These principles outline what “good” looks like here: what we expect from ourselves, how we collaborate, and how we make decisions when things become complicated. They are the practical […]
