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28 articles from the engineers and strategists doing the work.

Our 2025 Clevyr Holiday Letter

Dec 19, 2025

Our 2025 Clevyr Holiday Letter

As the year wraps itself in twinkling lights and end-of-year countdowns, we find ourselves doing what everyone seems to do in December: reflecting on the moments, milestones, and small miracles that shaped our year.

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🎃 Clevyr’s Favorite Halloween Watches

Oct 31, 2025

🎃 Clevyr’s Favorite Halloween Watches

At Clevyr, we love a good theme—and when October rolls around, it’s time for spooky stories, cult classics, and family favorites that make this season a little more magical (or horrifying, depending on your taste).

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The Secret to Strategic Account Management? Internal Alignment

Oct 03, 2025

The Secret to Strategic Account Management? Internal Alignment

Why Strategic Account Management Takes Internal Work When people think of account managers, they usually picture the external side of the job—calls with clients, progress reports, renewal conversations. But the real magic happens out of sight. The best account managers are master coordinators inside their own organizations, making sure every team that touches a client is moving in the same direction.

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Bootcamp to Bonafide

Aug 22, 2025

Bootcamp to Bonafide

Transitioning to a career in Software Development is a lucrative idea to many people. Programming jobs often allow flexibility in their positions such as offering remote work, are highly sought after by companies from any field or sector, and of course, their paychecks are a nice chunk of change. One of the most common modern-day  methods of learning programming is via a bootcamp. Their fast paced, full-throttle curriculum and flashy guarantees of “Get a Dev Career  in Just Three Months!” make for a very alluring opportunity. After all, most people who are looking to transition into a new career already have a packed schedule, like family obligations and their current job, or a desire to quickly find employment.However, bootcamps are still an investment and come at a cost. Many bootcamps supplement their short amount of time with a hefty price tag, and it can be hard to justify the expense. Even with their accelerated pace of study, bootcamps still take a time commitment that can disrupt your schedule and demand hours of your attention. This may leave you wondering - “Is a bootcamp right for me?”

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Sounds Like Summer: A Clevyr Playlist

Jul 03, 2025

Sounds Like Summer: A Clevyr Playlist

As a hybrid (mostly remote) team, we don’t gather around a literal water cooler much these days. Instead, our “off-topic” moments live in our hobby Slack channels: pictures of our pets and plants, the results of culinary experiments, random hobbies, and travel photos. We share movies, tv, and games, but the best conversations and the spiciest takes are in our music channel.

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Why We Close for Juneteenth — and Why It Matters

Jun 19, 2025

Why We Close for Juneteenth — and Why It Matters

Since three guys started an Oklahoma City tech company in 2009, Clevyr has been guided by honesty, transparency, and commitment to community – from our employees and clients to the local tech scene,  our city, and beyond. We recognize that we’re a small part of a larger history that deserves this pause. 

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Beyond the Interface: Semantic OS and the Coming Age of OS-less AI

Jun 13, 2025

Beyond the Interface: Semantic OS and the Coming Age of OS-less AI

For decades, we’ve been shackled—quietly and obediently—to operating systems. They promised order, organization, and access. They gave us desktops, dashboards, and docked icons. They also locked us into their structures, demanded obedience to syntax, to sequences of clicks and keystrokes that said: “Use it our way.”

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How Did I Get Here?

May 23, 2025

How Did I Get Here?

Prologue: CTRL+ALT+Beginnings I am a proud, card-carrying member of the Oregon Trail generation, aka the “Xennials.”  Navigating the freshly forged trails from the analog world into the digital, my formative years were a heady mix of floppy disks, batch files, and wide-eyed wonder. I was fortunate to grow up in a school system that was embracing the advent of the personal computer. When the elementary school got a batch of Commodore PET PCs I begged to go play with them at each opportunity. They were way more interesting to me than crayons or clay. 

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The Zebra Puzzle: Evaluating Developer Potential Without Coding

Mar 14, 2025

The Zebra Puzzle: Evaluating Developer Potential Without Coding

In a previous career, I was a software lead who wanted to build a highly performant group of devs. Doing so usually requires either a) hire several all-star developers, or b) develop a team from scratch for high cohesion, and then grow them into all-star developers. Due to budget constraints the latter strategy was chosen. Since the team was going to be primarily junior- and mid-level developers, I wanted to evaluate their skill in a code-agnostic way.

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Fighting the Winter Blahs

Feb 28, 2025

Fighting the Winter Blahs

We just said goodbye to a mostly gray February, Christmas feels like it was approximately forever ago, and the actual start of spring is still weeks away. As a team of technologists, our work is mostly indoors and mostly pretty sedentary, which can amplify the “Is it spring yet?” doldrums for even the most resilient among us.

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The Power of ‘No’ in Project Management

Feb 03, 2025

The Power of ‘No’ in Project Management

I’m a people pleaser. I came right out of the womb wondering if my cry was too loud for the doctor. From the playground to job interviews, I’ve always found a way to say “yes,” even when it meant absorbing the consequences—anything to make someone else’s life easier.

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