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There's a lot we don't need

There's a lot we don't need

This time around, I just wanted to share one article from a creator I find particularly inspiring: Pieter Levels, from Nomadlist - among many other projects. If you're into building software, you absolutely have to read this article.

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A few hard truths about remote work

A few hard truths about remote work

In the past 18 months, a lot of companies have had to adopt remote work - or so they claim! There are a lot of misconceptions and bad practices out there and we must speak up against them.

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Remote is the new cloud

Remote is the new cloud

One of the good things the pandemic has brought us is the normalisation of remote work. In this blog post, I share my opinion of the new tsunami wave this will bring and its rippling effect that will have on society as a whole.

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Not taking decisions is frustrating

Not taking decisions is frustrating

As much as you can read about business and about how to manage your own company, you will never be prepared to face this hard reality: slowly and gradually, decisions take more and more of your daily time and mental bandwidth.

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A small trick to help you estimate the size of a site

A small trick to help you estimate the size of a site

Here's a small trick we use to calculate the size of sites, in numbers of pages, when we're facing a migration or we need to estimate costs for our proposals, using the sitemap of the site.

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Beating the virus: lessons from our seventh year running MarsBased

COVID-19 affected us like everyone else. In this annual post, MarsBased shares the ups and downs of 2020 — lessons on management, finance, and mental health.

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How to generate TypeScript types and React hooks from GraphQL queries

We have been working with Shopify for a good while now, for all kinds and sizes of e-commerce sites, but we've been lately experimenting with GraphQL and React-based frontend applications to enhance user experience to unprecedented levels, so we've compiled some guidelines for you.

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What a cool thing we're building!

Throughout all the ups and downs of the entrepreneurial voyage, one tends to lose focus and forget about enjoying the ride. Also, we tend to focus on our own vision and forget about how others perceive us, which is as important or even more than what we think about ourselves!

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Experiments in summer

The best time to improve things in your company is today. Besides today, the best time is summer, when there's less work to do and part of the team is away on holidays. Here's how we improve things at MarsBased during the low season of summer.

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The Martian way

The Martian way

We have been around for well over six years. As we learn day by day, we feel the impulse to give back to our followers and community not only to explain how we do things, but also why we do them.

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A cleaner implementation of Schema.org using JSON

Schema.org now has a cleaner implementation using JSON that keeps your HTML untouched. Learn how to add structured data to your site without polluting your code.

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This is what we do

We often get asked what are we working on. Here's a comprehensive summary of the projects we're doing right now as a company.

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