The peloton problem
Senior engineers carry the front of every decision, every code review, every on-call shift. The peloton runs best when roles rotate. When the star eventually leaves, someone else needs to know what wind feels like.
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The Minimum Viable Product is not so minimum anymore
For the last decade every tech firm and aspiring app developer out there could count on the durability of one crucial structural dynamic in the
Firebase and Redux Saga can be friends
What’s this Firebase thingy? You might have heard about Firebase, a real-time database that stores data as JSON object and was acquired by Google
Refactoring towards testability
When working on a legacy codebase, you often have to make changes in code you don’t fully understand. When this code is not tested,
Don't Notion shine when she's gone?
Becoming enotionally involved? This blogpost explains why we really like the all-in-one workspace to write, plan, collaborate, and get organized.
How I fell for madewithlove in 30 days
My name is Vicky Jáuregui, I am a passionate software engineer from Argentina who matched with a one-of-a-kind company. Here is the story on how
Three steps to hiring: how we attract talented developers
We really care about everyone that works at madewithlove. So we want to be doubly sure your core values will match (or add to) our
Working remotely: a new user’s perspective.
I have a history of working in companies where you were expected to be in the office or at the client 95% of the time.
My first day at madewithlove and a strange white box
A recap of my first month at madewithlove Hi, my name is Gabriel Martinez. I’m a last-year student in Computer Graphics Design, option Web,
Why is everybody wearing headphones?
During a rare visit to our offices, a customer was extremely surprised to find that literally everybody in the office was wearing headphones while doing
Remote versus offshoring in software development
As you may have noticed, we are huge fans of remote working and we never pass on an opportunity to explain the concept to our
Running Kibana with Sense
Lately we have been missing the Sense Chrome extension, basically because of the autocompletes when we are writing some Elasticsearch queries, or debugging something. It
Avoiding Conditionals, an example
I didn’t like the code I wrote for a particular feature. It was “notify users when someone comments in a discussion” with these requirements:
How we improved our PWA score by 53 points in 4 hours
A week ago Hannes and I attended PHPUK in London (You can read all about it here). We saw a lot of great talks and
How to integrate your Laravel app with Elasticsearch - 2017 edition
This article is an update (2017) of the How to Integrate your Laravel app with Elasticsearch original article from 2015. There is also an updated
PHP UK Conference 2017
Frederick and I (Hannes) went to PHP UK last week! I was invited to speak again, for the second year in a row. After attending
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