From our SaaS audits
What we find inside SaaS companies
Patterns from the technical due diligences we run for investors and boards.
Engineering
Querying your Redux store with GraphQL
Rationale I love React and I love Redux, but one of the things I struggle with a lot is how complicated the latter can make
Pulse: Episode 3 - Between Us - PHP
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
Pulse: Episode 2 - Between Us - Refactoring
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
Pitfalls when switching branching models
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
Serverless functions with Vercel
As you (might) know, our current website is built on Gatsby. I love the fact we’re generating a super cacheable, fully static site with
I'm starting a greenfield project and I'm terrified.
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
Towards better code reviews
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
Snapshot through the heart
While snapshot testing has been around for a while in the form of visual snapshots (used in visual regression testing), it’s clear that the
Abstractions as simplifications
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
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.
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
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
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
What we talk about when we talk about testing
Imagine if airplane companies never tested their airplanes. They just ship them when they’re done. Would you feel safe boarding a plane like that?
Never talk to strangers
Talking to strangers in 1930s Moscow was not a smart thing to do. Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz (chairman of the management committee of one of the