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Creating a Scientific Pitch Notation Type using template literal types

Creating a well-defined type definition can be hard. TypeScript 4.1 introduced template literal types which can narrow down string types drastically. In this article we'll start with a string and end up with a type that covers scientific pitch notation.

Geoffrey Dhuyvetters

February 24, 2021

The personal touch when onboarding an employee in a remote world

Onboarding an employee well can make a world of difference in how they experience their first few days in a new company. We will take a look at how you can make your new hire feel welcome on day 1 and even before it!

Dimitri Van Lunter

February 17, 2021

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Developing engineers into leaders

Dimitri Van Lunter

February 11, 2021

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12 Factors in the era of containers

Tony Messias

January 29, 2021

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Why tech startups fail - based on auditing 50+ SaaS startups

Steve Tauber

January 18, 2021

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Seniority level in software engineering and how to assess it

Yannick De Pauw

January 08, 2021

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Querying your Redux store with GraphQL

Emma Fabre

December 21, 2020

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Smooth Sailing

Andreas Creten

December 14, 2020

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Pulse podcast: Between Us #2: PHP

Steve Tauber

November 30, 2020

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Pulse podcast: Between Us #1: Refactoring

Steve Tauber

November 30, 2020

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Pulse podcast: Episode #1: Jeremy Le Van (Cowboy)

Steve Tauber

November 05, 2020

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Pulse podcast: Pilot with Andreas Creten

Yannick De Pauw

November 05, 2020

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Pitfalls when switching branching models

Steve Tauber

October 09, 2020

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Remote onboarding: How madewithlove onboards (remote) employees

Steve Tauber

September 16, 2020

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Serverless functions with Vercel

Geoffrey Dhuyvetters

September 02, 2020

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CPD method

Steve Tauber

August 11, 2020

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I'm starting a greenfield project and I'm terrified.

Jonas Drieghe

August 04, 2020

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Communicating about change is hard. We’re making it easy.

Bram Devries

July 27, 2020

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Towards better code reviews

Jonas Drieghe

July 14, 2020

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Snapshot through the heart

Emma Fabre

July 02, 2020

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Abstractions as simplifications

Tony Messias

June 18, 2020

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Remote is not a substitute

Zvonimir Spajic

June 11, 2020

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Thanks for rejecting me

Yannick De Pauw

May 26, 2020

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Pointers and tips: dispelling the magic of git merge

Zvonimir Spajic

May 18, 2020

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No as a Service

Steve Tauber

May 12, 2020

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Why your engineers shouldn’t launch your features

Bram Devries

May 07, 2020

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How do I know my team is productive when working from home?

Dimitri Van Lunter

April 29, 2020

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Introduction to Inertia.JS

Tony Messias

April 24, 2020

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Grandfathering in legacy

Maarten Scholz

April 16, 2020

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Due diligence in the age of social distancing

Steve Tauber

April 09, 2020

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Follow these 4 steps to take your debugging skills to the next level

Bert Ramakers

March 27, 2020

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What we talk about when we talk about testing

Zvonimir Spajic

March 26, 2020

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The top struggles of remote workers (part 4) — Distractions at home

Steve Tauber

March 16, 2020

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The top struggles of remote workers (part 3) — Not being able to unplug

Steve Tauber

March 16, 2020

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The top struggles of remote workers (part 2) — Loneliness

Steve Tauber

March 16, 2020

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The top struggles of remote workers (part 1) — Collaboration & communication

Steve Tauber

March 16, 2020

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Our tool shed — the tools we use when working remotely

Yannick De Pauw

March 14, 2020

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Ask Me Anything with our CEO on working remote (from home)

Andreas Creten

March 12, 2020

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My personal journey in IT

Vicky Jáuregui

March 10, 2020

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Keeping your team healthy and more productive using remote work

Bert Ramakers

March 05, 2020

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Leadership dinner

Tim Sterkens

February 25, 2020

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My female perspective at madewithlove

Vicky Jáuregui

February 19, 2020

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Our htaccess tester tool has new features

Wouter Sioen

February 06, 2020

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We are not a remote-first company

Steve Tauber

February 05, 2020

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Sit down! Why you are wasting time with standups

Steve Tauber

January 30, 2020

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Have you seen our new haircut?

Yannick De Pauw

January 28, 2020

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Never talk to strangers

Zvonimir Spajic

January 20, 2020

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Attend our first workshop: Why remote companies are winning

Dimitri Van Lunter

January 14, 2020

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I don't trust this kid any further than I can throw him

Steve Tauber

January 10, 2020

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I need vacation: madewithlove company retreat 2019 (Italy)

Steve Tauber

December 24, 2019

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Releasing with confidence

Jonas Drieghe

December 18, 2019

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How to be an asshole when testing bugs

Steve Tauber

December 10, 2019

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Typed property must not be accessed before initialization

Wouter Sioen

December 06, 2019

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Getter, Setter, Never?

Zvonimir Spajic

December 04, 2019

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Gatsby and the new era of site generators

Emma Fabre

November 25, 2019

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Stop managing your releases before you start managing your releases

Jonas Drieghe

November 19, 2019

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Gotta Go Fast: Reducing friction in everyday work

Emma Fabre

October 29, 2019

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Dinner and a show

Steve Tauber

October 23, 2019

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Experimenting with asynchronous planning

Steve Tauber

October 21, 2019

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A nice app on Elm street

Emma Fabre

September 15, 2019

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Hexagonal Architecture demystified

Zvonimir Spajic

September 04, 2019

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How to integrate Elasticsearch in your Laravel App - 2021

Tony Messias

August 28, 2019

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Delivery oriented stand-ups

Wouter Sioen

August 21, 2019

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Catching bugs early with static analysis

Bram Devries

August 12, 2019

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Let's have pessimistic locking strategies

Vicky Jáuregui

July 26, 2019

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Why do we use bad color schemes?

Emma Fabre

July 11, 2019

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One job, many roles. The different skills needed to be a successful CTO

Jonas Van Schoote

July 03, 2019

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Makefiles for automation and better dev-UI

Zvonimir Spajic

June 27, 2019

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The hidden complexities of search

Dieter Vanden Eynde

June 14, 2019

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Someone's got a case of the Mondays

Steve Tauber

June 05, 2019

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Work well-being

Vicky Jáuregui

May 29, 2019

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Pair programming as a newbie and the fear of judgment

Michał Karnicki

May 24, 2019

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Bridging experience gaps while pair programming

Wouter Sioen

May 20, 2019

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The responsible developer profile explained

Yannick De Pauw

May 09, 2019

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On remote culture: the perspective of a Brazilian working for a Belgian remote first company

Kaio Brito

April 19, 2019

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Optimizing JavaScript packages for tree shaking

Geoffrey Dhuyvetters

April 12, 2019

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Liskov Substitution Principle Explained

Bert Ramakers

April 04, 2019

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Improving companies by sharing stories and cauliflower risotto at our first CTO dinner

Yannick De Pauw

March 29, 2019

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Chrome alternatives for devs

Emma Fabre

March 22, 2019

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Using MySQL for Testing (on Laravel)

Tony Messias

March 15, 2019

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Guiding teams to a better way of working

Dimitri Van Lunter

March 06, 2019

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Why good engineers avoid cool solutions

Bert Ramakers

February 27, 2019

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Why product marketing is more important in a tech company than you think

Bram Devries

February 20, 2019

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Team retreat 2018 - Greece: Why madewithlove retreats once a year

Yannick De Pauw

February 13, 2019

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The Domain-Driven Design fallacy

Wouter Sioen

February 07, 2019

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Does code need to be perfect?

Andreas Creten

January 25, 2019

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How efficient is pair programming? Will it work on your team?

Wouter Sioen

January 15, 2019

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Creating a declarative oscillator component with React hooks.

Geoffrey Dhuyvetters

January 04, 2019

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Company benefits in 2019 at madewithlove

Yannick De Pauw

December 24, 2018

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Immutability with immer

Emma Fabre

December 13, 2018

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What if... you're the only non-tech guy in a tech company

Tim Sterkens

December 06, 2018

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Using Prettier in PHP

Emma Fabre

November 27, 2018

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Re-evaluating the need for estimates

Jonas Drieghe

November 19, 2018

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How to keep pair programming digestible

Wouter Sioen

November 06, 2018

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Kubernetes 101 - explaining the basics while running a Laravel application with Redis and MySQL.

Tony Messias

October 25, 2018

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The Minimum Viable Product is not so minimum anymore

Jonas Van Schoote

October 03, 2018

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Firebase and Redux Saga can be friends

Kaio Brito

August 17, 2018

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Refactoring towards testability

Wouter Sioen

August 07, 2018

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Don't Notion shine when she's gone?

Emma Fabre

July 18, 2018

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How I fell for madewithlove in 30 days

Vicky Jáuregui

July 10, 2018

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Three steps to hiring: how we attract talented developers

Yannick De Pauw

July 05, 2018

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Working remotely: a new user’s perspective.

Dimitri Van Lunter

June 15, 2018

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My first day at madewithlove and a strange white box

Gabriel Martinez

June 11, 2018

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Why is everybody wearing headphones?

Andreas Creten

March 02, 2018

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Remote versus offshoring in software development

Andreas Creten

February 22, 2018

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