Every time I work on code with someone I haven’t worked with before, I end up having the same conversation. It usually starts when I push my first pull request and they see something like +20/-40 in a single file using 11 commits. When I tell people that...
Every software engineer has at some point in their career been asked to build a file upload. Perhaps it was to let a user upload an avatar, to import a bunch of contacts into a CRM, or to attach images or legal documents to a real estate property. On the...
At madewithlove, we join teams when things aren’t so stable. Maybe a key non-replaceable employee has left or a new investment is fueling growth. I join these companies as a CTO ad interim, someone to captain the ship through troubled waters. It’s hard at times since I’m...
On this episode of madewithlove’s Pulse podcast, Vinch Battaglia, CTO in residence, welcomes Wouter Sioen, software engineer, and Jonas Drieghe, software engineer, all members of the madewithlove team. We use PHP in-house and on our client projects so we decided to discuss why that is. Listen to this Pulse...
The madewithlove team dives into their first Between Us session where they discuss problems that they encounter through their daily work. Today’s topic is refactoring. Vinch Battaglia, CTO in residence, is joined by Jonas Drieghe, software engineer, and Dimi Van Lunter, engineering manager, to gain their insights. Listen to...
So you’ve decided to switch from one branching model to another. Did GitFlow catch your eye? Is it time to tackle feature flags with trunk-based development? No matter which model you choose, switching from one to another can be complicated. Here are 4 pitfalls we’ve seen that we...
I started a greenfield project this week. I knew it was coming after one of our product managers told me about it during lunch a couple of weeks ago. To be honest with you, I was terrified. I’ve been at madewithlove for a little over 4 years now, working...
Building software isn’t easy. Add the opinions and needs of multiple people into the mix and it can feel almost impossible at times. Learning to collaborate with multiple people on the same software is an essential skill for every software engineer nowadays, as almost no software gets built and...
As I was browsing through Twitter the other day, I saw someone complaining about abstractions among the lines of “we add abstraction layers on top of more abstraction layers and expect the system to be easy to maintain.” I understand this feeling because I’ve also felt that way before....