Creating immersive WebVR experiences with HTML

Virtual reality development may sound daunting, but it can be a lot easier than you think. We’ve put together a breeze tutorial to help you create your first VR experience in just a few lines of code.

Interview with Nikita Sazhinov

Last month we sat down with our very own Nikita Sazhinov to chat about his experience as a Full-stack developer intern at Miyagami. We talked about why he chose this career, what he learned at university versus what he is learning in the industry, and some of the unexpected skills that have proven crucial to his role at Miyagami. Continue reading for an honest take on doing an internship at Miyagami, and a deep dive into the headspace of a computer science student about to start his professional career.

I don’t have a technical background... And this is what I know about Web 3.0

Since the introduction of NFTs and the rebranding of Facebook into “Meta”, it feels like the next phase of the internet is right around the corner. Everybody is talking about it; about how it will change our lives and lead to a future where technology will be an even more integrated and crucial part of our existence.

Clutch Awards Miyagami as The 2022 Top Software Development Company in The Netherlands

Positive mindsets produce positive outcomes, this is the philosophy behind every single operation Miyagami engages in. Our team provides the best possible experience for our clients because that is the only thing they deserve.

I don’t have a technical background. And this is what I know about NFTs

Last year, the NFT market generated over 23 billion US dollars, compared to 100 million in 2020. With brands like Nike, Gucci and Burberry presenting their first virtual NFT wearables, celebrities such as Eminem, Jimmy Fallon and Neymar investing in popular NFT projects and auction houses like Christie's and Sotheby's auctioning digital art pieces and accepting cryptocurrency as payment, the NFT market is hot and booming.

I don’t have a technical background. And this is what I know about the Metaverse

Since the rebranding of Facebook into Meta, everybody is talking about Mark Zuckerberg’s professed goal to shift his focus towards the metaverse. Since I have no technical background, it’s sometimes hard to understand what the metaverse is and what the future implications will be for our lives.

Snibble Growth Hackathon

At Miyagami, we like to challenge ourselves on Friday by testing new tech, improving our skills, and trying new formulas where we see the opportunity for growth for our team and partners. One of these new ideas, we have been working on, is one-day tech and growth hackathons. In these hackathons, we invite founders and organization to propose certain business cases.

Aithena’s founder reviews us on Clutch.Co

We recently received a review from Aithena on Clutch, a marketing software company. For context, Clutch is an established platform in the heart of Washington, DC, committed to helping small, mid-market, and enterprise businesses identify and connect with the service providers they need to achieve their goals.

Why big organisations keep getting hacked: Security best practices and the promise of decentralisation

Oftentimes when companies approach us to discuss their pain points, these revolve around price, bad communication or too little control over their web or mobile applications. When we dive into these applications, we find scarier pain points of which the client is often not aware.

Aithena Growth Hackathon

At Miyagami, we stay busy on Fridays testing new tech, developing our team's skills, and ultimately trying any new concept where we see the opportunity for growth for our team and partners. One of those new concepts we have been playing with for the last few weeks is one-day tech and growth hackathons.

Women in tech: My history of a career transition from finance into the tech area

You’ve probably read or heard the story of someone who went through such a daunting career transition process. This process took me a lot of courage and resilience, so that’s why I decided to tell my story, with the aim of perhaps inspiring and encouraging other women.

Web scraping using Puppeteer

Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is data scraping used for extracting data from websites. This can be useful when a resource does not provide a public API for its data or when your application transposes the content of one resource onto itself.

Why were Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp down?

As some of you might have noticed, some of the most popular services our generation uses right now were down. Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were down as of this moment. It is hard to imagine that Facebook is vulnerable to mistakes or errors that might lead to such an outage.

What is Web3?

This Friday sprint we wanted to take on a problem that was out of our normal scope. We decided on creating a decentralized chatting app, where all of the data is not stored on a single location or entity, but a small subset of the data is stored on each user of the application.

Creating a MVP in one day - zeroCard

Fridays at Miyagami are always focused on self-development. Every Friday, one of the team members prepares a presentation, often it’s about using a new stack, making an app, or developing a business case.

The fine line between business & technology

Sometimes our inner geek can take control and lead us down a rabbit hole of new innovations, technological highlights and experiments, only to come crashing down since we ran out of budget.

Rebranding your business, the do’s and don’ts

These steps mentioned below are things you should consider, some may be applicable to you, some are probably not, but they will provide you with support for tackling this process.

How to make your software solution future-proof

Give yourself enough time to come up with a solution and maybe even a possible rework. But before you do this, you have to calculate the impact of taking this risk. Ask yourself: is the risk worth taking, or do you already take steps towards the future?