Field notes.
What happens at the studio, written down: hiring, events, client work and the odd football match.
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- № 15
we played for a cause
TENTON's annual football tournament raised money for smart glasses for people who are blind. We showed up, played three games and got a certificate.
2026.10.24/Field note/1 min readRead →
- № 14
we're one seat short
Three K-GenU interns are in. The last seat is for a graphic designer: paid, three months, in Prishtina. The application is a design challenge, Brigada Wrapped 2026. Deadline 23 October.
2026.10.17/Hiring/1 min readRead →
- № 13
in a client's words
We could tell you what it is like to work with us. Instead, we let a client tell you: four short films cut from one testimonial.
2026.10.16/Field note/1 min readRead →
- № 12
from architect's files to a live 3d site
We were handed 252 plan sheets, print PDFs and a 3D model with no unit names in it. Now you can open the building in 3D at kompleksivera.com.
2026.10.16/Field note/2 min readRead →
- № 11
two days at kosict
Booths 10 and 11 at Klan Arena, Prishtinë. Familiar faces, new ones, and a crowd around the Brigada game.
2026.10.12/Field note/1 min readRead →
- № 10
a model small enough for a browser tab
Image models kept failing at 16×16 sprites, and scaling up language models failed too. So we built something much smaller: 440,000 weights, no server, about $80 of GPU time.
2026.10.05/Field note/2 min readRead →
- № 09
we're hiring: mid laravel developer
One seat, mid level, Laravel. You have shipped it to production and you would do it again. Real products for real clients, mostly in the US, UK and Europe.
2026.09.30/Hiring/1 min readRead →
- № 08
that's a wrap on future 2 tech 2026
Two days at Stand 36 in the Palace of Congresses, Tirana. What we came to say, who we met, and why a Prishtinë studio crossed the border to say it.
2026.09.28/Field note/3 min readRead →
- № 07
built on standards
We are ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified. What the audit actually asked for, what we had to change, and why a Kosovo studio bothered with the paperwork.
2026.09.18/Field note/3 min readRead →
- № 06
one summer at brigada
Four months, one game, and real code running for a real client. How ouroboros turned into an internship that distilled a voice model now sitting in a client's staging environment.
2026.09.10/Field note/3 min readRead →
- № 05
circa, by haxhi bekaj
Our friend and colleague Haxhi built a radial menu for macOS. Hit a hotkey, flick toward a slot, and the action fires. €9.99 once, no subscription.
2026.08.31/Field note/1 min readRead →
- № 04
two days with vector guest
Harold, Matthieu, Erick and Andre flew into Prishtinë for two days of product work. Notes on why the flights were worth it — and on building a whole product instead of a slice of someone else's.
2026.08.10/Field note/2 min readRead →
- № 03
ouroboros: the internship you win by out-thinking an AI
Round two of how we hire. Three summer-internship seats, no code required — trick a bot into leaking a secret, then build the bot nobody can trick.
2026.05.26/Hiring/3 min readRead →
- № 02
slug-or-die: how we hired this quarter
We deleted the recruiter funnel and replaced it with a public leaderboard — one bug, one judge, and a default-REJECT you had to talk past. Round one is over; here is how it went.
2026.05.13/Hiring/5 min readRead →
- № 01
we spoke at adc ulqin
The Albanian Developers Conference, third edition, inside the old fortress at Ulqin. We presented the company, demoed a programming book for Albanian-speaking children, and left copies in the museum archive.
2024.05.18/Field note/2 min readRead →