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The evolution of technical roles
Many startups give the CTO title to their technical lead. We think that’s a mistake. There is an organic way to grow engineering teams
Don’t let QA be a bottleneck
Not every company can have a “move fast and break things” attitude. In fact, even Zuckerberg, who installed this as a mantra at Facebook in
Logging non-Laravel queries to Telescope
One of the legacy projects we are dealing with is using old-school mysqli queries all over the place. We have wrapped the application in a
When there isn’t plenty of fish in the sea: hiring and retaining tech talent
The shortage of skilled workers has been rising continuously in recent years. To be able to hire and retain scarce talent, we need to improve
Pusher alternatives for local development with Laravel Broadcasting
Recently, I built a proof of concept for a feature using Laravel’s Broadcasting feature. While I was familiar with its existence, it was my
Setting up infrastructure using HashiCorp Terraform, Laravel Forge and Cloudflare
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Typescript, Vue 3, and strongly typed props
After working with React (and TypeScript) for a long time, I’ve recently been contributing to a Vue application. While I felt right at home
Adding GitHub annotations with PHP-CS-Fixer
Have you ever seen an error message like the one above before? If you’ve used tools such as PHPStan alongside GitHub Actions then it
Using an SSH tunnel to connect to your dev MySQL with Docker
About a year ago, I wrote about managing your ports with Traefik in your local development environment. That blog post described how to set up
On Technical debt - What is it, how is it created, what types of technical debt are there, how to avoid tech debt, and how to fix it?
What is technical debt? How can you fix technical debt and what is the best approach to avoid technical debt?
Fixing cookiebot bug by not fixing cookiebot
I want to start with a small disclaimer that I don’t fully understand what exactly went wrong and why the things we did fixed
Google Workspace SSO and automated user provisioning
One of the client projects I work on has larger, enterprise customers. Because of this, I needed to create a way for their users to
Modern front-end monorepos — Part 2: running scripts
In the previous article, we set up a monorepo project with 2 applications and a package. We also enabled Yarn workspaces to manage the dependencies
How to overcome cognitive biases in your hiring process
How can you overcome cognitive biases in your hiring process? Our recruiting expert and hiring manager Simone explains how she does it during the hiring process when looking for talents for our clients and ourselves.
Modern front-end monorepos — Part 1: managing dependencies and sharing code
I’ve really learned to love a good monorepo setup, a repository that contains multiple packages and/or applications. Being able to make changes across
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