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Leadership

Habits, retrospection, and ancient reptiles

I saw an interesting heuristic regarding habits recently but I couldn’t find the source anymore. Bear with me while I paraphrase a bit. If

madewithlove

Pulse: Episode 4 - Mike Veerman on product management, scoping, and poor leadership in software development

Episode description On this episode of madewithlove’s Pulse podcast, we’ve invited Mike Veerman (Software strategist) to discuss with our own Vinch Battaglia (CTO

Engineering

Creating a Scientific Pitch Notation Type using template literal types

Ok. So. The honeymoon phase is over. I can say TypeScript is steadily becoming a part of my daily stack. While working on converting music-fns

Leadership

The personal touch when onboarding an employee in a remote world

These are strange times for everyone. Imagine starting out in a new remote job when all you’ve ever been used to is going to

Leadership

Developing engineers into leaders

Why would you want your engineers to become leaders? Managing a team of just a few engineers and their output should be easy. You can

CTO

12 Factors in the era of containers

The 12factor manifest is a set of guidelines to help us build SaaS applications that can easily be operated and scaled without much effort. It

Due diligence

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

I’m sure you’ve heard the statistic that 9 out of 10 startups fail. How can you win against such odds? Is there a

Leadership

Seniority level in software engineering and how to assess it

As a non-technical founder, it can be difficult to determine if your development team is composed of engineers that are on a staff engineer, senior

Engineering

Querying your Redux store with GraphQL

Rationale I love React and I love Redux, but one of the things I struggle with a lot is how complicated the latter can make

madewithlove

Smooth Sailing

Here at madewithlove, we don’t do design. We’ve been saying that in almost every sales pitch over the years, each time with the

madewithlove

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

CTO

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

madewithlove

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

madewithlove

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

Engineering

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

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