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A head-to-head of pencil.dev vs Claude Design on the same markdown input. Claude Design produced the more polished deck and handled speaker notes; pencil.dev still wins for iterative UI work where direct manipulation matters.
Becoming enotionally involved? This blogpost explains why we really like the all-in-one workspace to write, plan, collaborate, and get organized.
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
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
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.
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,
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
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
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
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:
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
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
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
Elasticsearch gets a lot of its power from how it works with analyzers and inverted indices. These inverted indices store your text data in a
Last week I attended the PHP Conference Brasil for the first time. It was awesome and I’m going to try to cover some of
So an API, that’s just output of some JSON code right? No problem, my framework does that automatically. Or if you just want an
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