Engineering

Insights from the team that keeps Harvest ticking.

November 10, 2022

Securing Harvest Emails

Email spoofing is one of the techniques the forces of evil use to convince you their spam/phishing email is legit. In short, email spoofing is used by these malicious agents to make it seem like their emails are coming from trusted sources like your...

October 21, 2022

Adding time tracking to your web application in 3 easy steps

Learn how to use Harvest Button and Widget to add time tracking functionality in your own application. Time tracking is at the heart of Harvest. That’s what we do best. In this short tutorial, I’d like to show you how, using a Harvest account with...

September 22, 2022

An Engineering Manager's Guide to Creating a Sense of Belonging Part 4

Ensuring engineers are proud of their work and employer This final post in our four-part series on fostering belonging at work focuses on building a feeling of alignment between engineers and your organization and helping ensure they feel proud of...

September 15, 2022

An Engineering Manager's Guide to Creating a Sense of Belonging Part 3

Supporting engineers' daily work and career development In this four-part series, we’ve been exploring the four core elements needed to feel a sense of belonging at work. We’ve looked at how engineering managers can help ensure engineers are seen...

September 8, 2022

An Engineering Manager's Guide to Creating a Sense of Belonging Part 2

Facilitating connections for coworkers In this four-part series, we’ve started exploring how engineering managers can impact employee retention, company culture, collaboration, and productivity by helping engineers feel a sense of belonging at...

September 1, 2022

An Engineering Manager's Guide to Creating a Sense of Belonging

In this four-part series, we’ll explore how engineering managers can impact employee retention, company culture, collaboration, and productivity by helping engineers feel a sense of belonging at work. Having a sense of belonging is a core human...

June 1, 2022

Live timesheet updates

Have you ever noticed that if you start a timer in your web browser, your timesheet will show that fresh timer in your phone, or in any of our desktop apps? No need for reloading or manual refreshes, it just takes a moment for any of your Harvest...

October 5, 2021

Accessibility in timesheets

Harvest as a Web application is now about 15 years old, which is about the same amount of time I’ve been working on the Web(!). Over that time, the medium has changed so much that I barely recognize the best practices from my early days. As the Web...