Martian Chronicles
Welcome to the MarsBased blog. We write about, technology, web and mobile development, UX, product design, running a business, company culture, remote work, startups, and entrepreneurship.
Privacy, trust, and engineering tools: Our position at MarsBased
At MarsBased, we prioritize trust and privacy over the granular surveillance capabilities of AI tools like Cursor. Discover why we choose transparency and outcome-based engineering over monitoring individual usage data.
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Everything Figma won't tell you: Frontending with detail (Part 1)
Beyond static Figma files, frontend engineering is about "torturing the design" to bridge the gap between mockups and reality. We account for fluid layouts, edge-case content, and invisible states to transform "Goldilocks" designs into resilient, accessible digital ecosystems.
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Betting harder than ever for remote work
MarsBased was founded twelve years ago as a remote-first company not out of convenience, but out of conviction. Long before remote work became mainstream, we deliberately chose to build an officeless company around trust, autonomy, and life balance.
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Always use a .dockerignore in your projects
Did you know that omitting a .dockerignore file can slow down your deployments and compromise your application's security? Often overlooked, this small file is as vital as .gitignore. Discover why we consider it a non-negotiable piece at MarsBased and how it can protect you from accidental data leaks.
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Replacing jQuery with React: a pragmatic migration plan (with real estimates)
Legacy frontends rarely fail loudly. They fail quietly: slower iteration, harder UI changes, more edge-case bugs, and a growing sense that every improvement costs too much. That is usually the moment teams consider moving from a jQuery-heavy UI to a component-based frontend like React.
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AI code agents and Typed Languages
For the first time, types feel like they are working with you instead of against you. Inference, editor support, safer refactors, and clearer APIs made typing feel less like bureaucracy and more like leverage.
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A new website and four things you should know about MarsBased
We launched a new website to communicate our internal changes. Learn more about MarsBased!
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Some things you can do as a company to give back to your community
Over the course of the six years that we have been operating, we have compiled a few things you can do to give back to your community of startups of choice. By doing so, you will become leaders in the startup scene of your city!
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How I use Docker for Rails development: running services
Project setup can be a very cumbersome process for developers. In this blog post, our developer Dani explains how he uses Docker to develop in Rails
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