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Two agents implemented and reviewed a full architecture refactor across five iterations, with zero lines of production code written by hand. What neither agent caught was four innocent lines in a coordinator that had quietly started making policy decisions.
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
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
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 started a greenfield project this week. I knew it was coming after one of our product managers told me about it during lunch a
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
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
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
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
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
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
Creating branches in git is blazingly fast and having a bunch of them is pretty cheap. This means we get to merge them quite often.
Quiz time. Which of these actually means no: 1. We will try our best 2. Yes 3. Your proposal is intriguing 4. That sounds difficult
It has never been easier for engineering teams to build and release new features for your customers. This fits well with our philosophy of shipping
“How do I know my team is productive when working from home?” This must be the number one question I get when people ask me
Recently, one of the most trendy stacks is the JAMStack, which was popularized by Netlify. It’s mainly SPAs but committed to supporting statically generated
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