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Agents follow the patterns in the surrounding code more reliably than they follow your rules, so every inconsistent naming scheme and half-migrated architecture is a lesson you're teaching them. The fix isn't another rule file. It's deleting the bad example.
Search is one of those life-changing innovations that we started taking for granted. Companies like Google make it seem so easy to search and
I hate Mondays. The theory is that if you hate Mondays you should change your job. And if you do that but find yourself hating
If you spend most of your day working in front of a desk you need to pay attention to your environment to prevent illnesses and
I’m new to pair programming. While the concept of pair programming is certainly not new to me (see among many, “The Clean Coder” by
Some weeks ago, I was doing a talk about how you can make pair programming effective and enjoyable. Everything went well until I got a
At madewithlove, we take much pride in our company values. They are ingrained in everything we do, from selecting customers to managing our work-life
A couple of months ago, I was invited by the university I graduated from to be one of the speakers in an event in my
As an author of (open source) packages, I think you have the responsibility to protect the bundle size of your package consumer. When you publish
The Liskov Substitution Principle is one of the five design principles that make for SOLID code, and probably one of the hardest to fully grasp.
At madewithlove, we believe humans matter. Being a well-rounded engineer is not only about processes, quality code, or technical choices. There are no universal
What’s up with Chrome? Recently Google has been in the headlines a lot due to an upcoming change affecting Chrome, but the gist of
We have a really good testing culture at madewithlove and, in one of the projects I am working on, we have a decent suite of
The following post will discuss how you can guide a team to a better way of working. Important side note: this post assumes that the
Engineers love innovation, shiny tools, and creative ways of solving problems. This is a good thing and a bad thing. It’s good because we
During the annual madewithlove retreat in Greece, I gave a talk on what product marketing is and how modern teams should approach building a product.
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