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Your User is not Human: SEO in the Age of Generative AI

Since the dawn of time, or the early 90s to be more precise, humanity has shared a strangely specific dream: the zero-click internet. No links. No tabs. No unwinnable battle against spam and pop-ups. Just ask…

Manuel Morandi

9 min read (est.)

Product architecture

Software design doesn't matter

...unless you expect your software to never change—which, let's be honest, is never the case.

Alexander Yarigin

3 min read (est.)

Engineering practices

Make it Accessible, boost your SEO

How often do you think about your web page’s SEO? Probably quite a bit. We want our pages to perform well, reach a wider audience, and help our products grow. Strong SEO is one of the main ways to achieve that.

Manuel Morandi

6 min read (est.)

Infrastructure and DevOps

Infrastructure as Code, Terraform and Kamal

Infrastructure as Code (or IaC — because apparently every concept needs a catchy acronym) is the process of provisioning, deploying and managing infrastructure through code, rather than through manual…

Joaquín Añón

5 min read (est.)

AI implementation

Balance the Vibe in your Coding

I've been using AI tools for coding for around two years, specifically playing around with Cursor for about eight months. In that time, I've gone from skeptic to convert to what I'd call a "balanced…

Alexander Yarigin

4 min read (est.)

Engineering practices

Componentization with Object-Oriented CSS

Styling, with its unpredictable nature and difficulty in scaling or changing, can often be a source of frustration. However, several CSS architectures have emerged over time, offering relief by making styling…

Manuel Morandi

3 min read (est.)

Product architecture

Bootstraping startups

Over-engineering is the curse of the 2020s. Instead of following the good old Silicon Valley mantra of "ship fast and break things," many startups think they need a fully-fledged application from the…

Matias Gutierrez

2 min read (est.)

Engineering practices

Favor waterfall-free epics

It's common for engineering managers to want to be fully informed about the tasks that need to be completed for a given epic before jumping right in and implementing it. They often rely on discovery tickets as…

Matias Gutierrez

2 min read (est.)

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