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Only three steps between an idea and a preview link need a human: answering questions, approving the plan and checking the result. A GitHub Action routes issue and PR events to a Claude routine that refines, builds test-first and fixes review feedback. The real effort goes into when not to proceed.
We see teams blindly following Scrum, Kanban, or the Spotify model and introducing roles into teams (such as a Site Reliability Engineer) because other companies
Whether you’ve built a private or public-facing API, at some point you or your users are going to want to communicate with it.
Reading tip: Learn how to run an ssh tunnel in your docker based development environment to easily connect to mysql or other non-http services.
Over my career I’ve dabbled in various forms of testing, both on the backend and front-end. I’ve tried various frameworks and experimented
Every software engineer has at some point in their career been asked to build a file upload. Perhaps it was to let a user upload
What is due diligence or a technical audit The goal of due diligence is simple: figure out the hidden secrets of the target company that
At madewithlove, we join teams when things aren’t so stable. Maybe a key non-replaceable employee has left or a new investment is fueling
1. Is roadmapping useful in software development? Suppose you are a mayor of Smallville. You might create a roadmap for the city that covers the
One of the first steps when you are deploying an application with Docker Swarm or Kubernetes is to publish the image in a registry. It
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
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
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-
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
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
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
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