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Development8 May 2024·3 min read

The Argument Against

TypeScript slows down initial development. You have to write more code, define types, and deal with compiler errors that sometimes feel unnecessary. In pure JavaScript, things simply work.

By Alejandro

2024
SEO

Two Types of Content

Trending content captures the moment. A viral topic, recent news, a passing trend. It attracts a lot of traffic very quickly, but that traffic disappears just as fast.

3 min read · Beatriz

2024
Development

The Appeal of the Monorepo

All code in one repository. Atomic changes that touch multiple packages. Internal dependencies always in sync. Trivial code reuse.

3 min read · Alejandro

2024
Strategy

The Starting Point

The client sold mid-to-high priced products, between €200 and €800. Traffic was decent and the add-to-cart rate was reasonable, but sales weren’t materializing.

3 min read · Beatriz

2024
Strategy

The Context

An edtech startup. Seed funding, an eight-person team, plenty of ambition, and significant uncertainty about exactly what they were going to sell.

3 min read · Beatriz

2023
Development

Why Database Migrations Are Scary

It's code that modifies data in production. If something goes wrong, it's not a bug that can be fixed with a hotfix. It's potentially lost or corrupted data.

3 min read · Alejandro

2023
Strategy

The Project That Never Launched

We know dozens of web projects that never saw the light of day. Not because they failed, but because they were never considered ready.

2 min read · Sara

2023
SEO

The Obsession with Backlinks

SEO has a cultural fixation on external links. Getting other sites to link to you is difficult, scarce, and therefore valuable.

4 min read · Beatriz

2023
Development

The Financial Metaphor

Ward Cunningham introduced the term technical debt to explain to non-technical stakeholders why it sometimes makes sense to take shortcuts. Like a loan: you get something now and pay later.

3 min read · Alejandro

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