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The token bill for an AI agent is the visible 10 to 30% of what it costs. Review, supervision, rework and ownership make up the rest, and unlike a salary, almost nobody forecasts it.
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How to integrate Elasticsearch in your Laravel App - 2024
Integrating Elasticsearch with Laravel enhances search capabilities beyond simple LIKE matches. This guide covers Elasticsearch basics, setting up a local environment with Docker, creating a demo application, and implementing Elasticsearch integration using observers and repositories.
Delivery oriented stand-ups
As engineers, we want to focus on delivering value to customers. We noticed that a lot of the projects we work on are following agile
Catching bugs early with static analysis
PHP is a dynamic language and while this certainly has its benefits, it also means that it’s not uncommon to see errors about calling
Let's have pessimistic locking strategies
When managing data, you need to take into account several matters. One of them is concurrency. It happens when multiple people try to simultaneously access
Why do we use bad color schemes?
If you’re a developer, odds are most of what you’re looking all day is text and code. Whether it’s in a terminal,
One job, many roles. The different skills needed to be a successful CTO
Some time ago I came across this article on Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge blog about when founding CEOs need to go. It’s
Makefiles for automation and better dev-UI
As our projects grow in complexity, the list of tools they require also grows and remembering how to use all of them (with their different
The hidden complexities of search
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
Someone's got a case of the Mondays
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
Work well-being
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
Pair programming as a newbie and the fear of judgment
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
Bridging experience gaps while pair programming
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
The responsible developer profile explained
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
On remote culture: the perspective of a Brazilian working for a Belgian remote first company
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
Optimizing JavaScript packages for tree shaking
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
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