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Thanks for rejecting me

Thanks for rejecting me

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 are going to read? It’s a feeling that we think many applicants have when awaiting feedback on their technical assignment during our hiring process....

Pointers and tips: dispelling the magic of git merge

Pointers and tips: dispelling the magic of git merge

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. But how is a branch represented internally and what does it mean to merge them? Understanding how this works internally will help you understand why...

No as a Service

No as a Service

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 If you answered “All of the above” you are right. What?! Even yes might mean no? Yup! I was surprised too. The reason is because...

Why your engineers shouldn’t launch your features

Why your engineers shouldn’t launch your features

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 value to customers on a regular basis but does your customer experience this in the same way? And who should be in charge of releasing...

How do I know my team is productive when working from home?

How do I know my team is productive when working from home?

“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 something about working remotely. I could tell them to install a camera that records the employee’s every movement, combined with a screen monitoring tool...

Introduction to Inertia.JS

Introduction to Inertia.JS

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 sites which means no backend, a bit of JS that consumes APIs, and some HTML (I’m overly simplifying here). Regular SPAs can have a...

Grandfathering in legacy

Grandfathering in legacy

So many problems in legacy or brownfield applications stem from invalid state being dragged around throughout the whole application and causing a bug somewhere far away from its origin or just dying a silent death. I’d like to introduce you to a method to handle invalid state in new...

Due diligence in the age of social distancing

Due diligence in the age of social distancing

A big part of closing a new investment round is the technical due diligence report that informs all parties involved of the current state of technology and the engineering team. Usually, a contracted team arrives to interview and analyze a codebase, determine weaknesses, and create a briefing that communicates their...

Follow these 4 steps to take your debugging skills to the next level

Follow these 4 steps to take your debugging skills to the next level

The date is September 9, 1947. U.S. Navy officer Grace Hopper is working on a Harvard Mark II computer when she notices that it is consistently delivering errors. After checking for obvious problems, she decides to open the computer with the help of some coworkers. Much to their surprise,...

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