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Pulse: Episode 3 - Between Us - PHP
On this episode of madewithlove’s Pulse podcast, Vinch Battaglia, CTO in residence, welcomes Wouter Sioen, software engineer, and Jonas Drieghe, software engineer, all members
Pulse: Episode 2 - Between Us - Refactoring
The madewithlove team dives into their first Between Us session where they discuss problems that they encounter through their daily work. Today’s topic is
Pulse: Episode 1 - Jeremy Le Van (Cowboy)
Tune in for spicy and insightful conversations on all things SaaS, products,(technical) leadership and product. In Pulse, the podcast, madewithlove’s Vincent Battaglia talks
Pulse podcast - Pilot with Andreas Creten
Tune in for spicy and insightful conversations on all things SaaS, products,(technical) leadership and product. In Pulse, the podcast, madewithlove’s Vincent Battaglia talks
Pitfalls when switching branching models
So you’ve decided to switch from one branching model to another. Did GitFlow catch your eye? Is it time to tackle feature flags with
Remote onboarding: How madewithlove onboards (remote) employees
Onboarding can be a stressful time for a company, doubly so for a remote company. At madewithlove, we focus on proper documentation so that new
Serverless functions with Vercel
As you (might) know, our current website is built on Gatsby. I love the fact we’re generating a super cacheable, fully static site with
CPD method
I love DDD, not domain driven design but instead double diamond design. In fact, I even mentioned it in my colleague.readme. Double diamond design
I'm starting a greenfield project and I'm terrified.
I started a greenfield project this week. I knew it was coming after one of our product managers told me about it during lunch a
Communicating about change is hard. We’re making it easy.
ChangeHub has been part of our madewithlove family for a long time. The first-ever commit dates back to November 8, 2014, during our team retreat
Towards better code reviews
Building software isn’t easy. Add the opinions and needs of multiple people into the mix and it can feel almost impossible at times. Learning
Snapshot through the heart
While snapshot testing has been around for a while in the form of visual snapshots (used in visual regression testing), it’s clear that the
Abstractions as simplifications
As I was browsing through Twitter the other day, I saw someone complaining about abstractions among the lines of “we add abstraction layers on top
Remote is not a substitute
Every time a popular book is turned into a movie, an outcry of disappointed book lovers follows. While some adaptations really are terrible, what often
Thanks for rejecting me
Do you know that feeling when you are about to open an important email, knowing you will either really like or really hate what you
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