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How to be an asshole when testing bugs

How to be an asshole when testing bugs

Ugh… I can’t believe it! How did he find that? This is my goal when I test for bugs. I want to find the little edge cases that developers haven’t thought about. I’m a product manager at madewithlove and at times I take on the role of...

Typed property must not be accessed before initialization

Typed property must not be accessed before initialization

PHP7.4 introduced this cool new feature called “typed properties” which add the existing PHP type system to class properties. This means that you can now enforce which types a property has without having to encapsulate it in an object. An example class containing typed properties looks like this: class...

Getter, Setter, Never?

Getter, Setter, Never?

What if I told you Morpheus never said “What if I told you?” I know you saw that meme a thousand times but have you actually heard him say it in the movie? You didn’t, because it didn’t happen. Darth Vader also never said “Luke, I am your...

Gatsby and the new era of site generators

Gatsby and the new era of site generators

Why Gatsby? One of the greatest aspects of modern web development is how modular and composable everything has become. Building an application these days has become a lot like tinkering with building blocks: piecing together packages, APIs, services and so on. Each doing what they do best. We’ve learned...

Stop managing your releases before you start managing your releases

Stop managing your releases before you start managing your releases

It’s Friday afternoon. Do you deploy to production? A lot of teams are afraid to push their code to production before the weekend because something might go wrong that may impact their well-earned weekend. Today, I don’t want to dive too deep into how we can create enough...

Gotta Go Fast: Reducing friction in everyday work

Gotta Go Fast: Reducing friction in everyday work

It’s safe to say that programming, and everything around it, evolved tremendously since the Internet’s beginnings. If you’ve ever created a Frontpage website or battled with Dreamweaver and Flash applications you know we’ve traveled a long way to get where we are now, and all along...

Dinner and a show

Dinner and a show

Because we are constantly learning, madewithlove hosts CTO dinners as a way of facilitating conversations between CTOs of Belgium. The role of a CTO is complex and varies depending on the stage you are in. It’s important to prepare yourself and build skills for what is coming next. I...

Experimenting with asynchronous planning

Experimenting with asynchronous planning

No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy In a continued push for asynchronous work, we attempted to tackle one of the last major meetings we had — Sprint Planning. I’ve found this to be the most dreaded meeting for developers since it’s often a time sink. With...

A nice app on Elm street

A nice app on Elm street

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