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Coding agents made implementation cheap, but validation never got cheaper. That shift moves the bottleneck from writing code to deciding what is worth building, and the response is more autonomy and faster iteration, not more detailed upfront plans.
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
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
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
What is technical debt? How can you fix technical debt and what is the best approach to avoid technical debt?
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
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
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 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.
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
If you are reading this right now, chances are high that you have a job interview coming up shortly. Perhaps you are not nervous because
It’s no secret that we are big fans of Docker during our daily development work. It’s still one of the easiest ways to
Software engineering and marketing are often considered to be on completely opposite ends of the spectrum but when put together they can become a powerful
When writing tests, I often find myself switching between the IDE and terminal windows to actually run the tests. On projects with very large test
Since the pandemic began, we all have experienced the pleasures and pains of remote working. Fully remote jobs have become so increasingly popular with job
Did you know that Skunk Works has a set of rules laid down by its founder? If you aren’t familiar with Skunk Works, it’
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