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Audit the code you inherit ⚡️

How many times have you - as an agency or freelancer - inherited code from a previous provider or another team? How many times have you been blamed for things that were not your fault? You can avoid it, if you follow our advice.
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Life on Mars Podcast 🎙 

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How to look for technical co-founders (in Spanish)
Episodes from the New Season
Since the launch of the new season of the Life on Mars podcast last month (read what's new for the new season), we've interviewed Sergio Gago (Moody's Analytics), Nacho González-Barros (Infojobs), our CTO Xavier Redó, Laura González (Schibsted), Jordi Miró (The Hotels Network), Victor Castell (Job&Talent), and Enrique Mandujano (Cosmic Chimps) to talk about various topics such as tech audits in M&A processes, finding tech co-founders for your startup, hiring and managing developers, and what to do when your platform goes down (as it was the case for Facebook). Check them out here 👇🏻
 

Tech tips 💡

Functional core, imperative shell
In the last few years, our team has been playing with functional programming to learn other programming paradigms and grow as developers. In this blog post, our past team member Daniel Gómez explains how he writes tests and organizes code inside services following the "functional core, imperative shell" pattern.
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Drawing areas using SVG paths
In this post, we're sharing the basics of how to draw areas using SVG paths and one common issue found using them. Our Tech Lead, David Garmendia, would have appreciated knowing these tips when he started using SVG paths, and that's why he decided to share a Today I Learnt kind of post with you.
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Building a Ruby CLI with Thor
Last year, we wrote a Ruby CLI using Thor for a client project, and we are ready to share everything we've learnt in the process. Are you ready? In this post, our at that time team member, Daniel Gómez, guides you step by step.
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We're hiring 👩🏻‍🚀

Ruby on Rails Developers (100% Remote)
We are looking for Ruby on Rails Developers, either to join the team as full-time employees or freelancers. We are a young and energetic team with a passion to deliver premium quality software to our clients.  If you want to know more about who we are, what we do and how we work, take a look at the MarsBased handbook and if you already know us and want to becoem part of the Martian family, check our openings:
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Our clients 🤝

Launched the Startup Genome Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2021
Check out Startup Genome's Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2021 on their LocomotiveCMS-based platform we have been building for three years, now!
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Extended projects
Many new opportunities are coming our way, but we are fully booked until the end of the year! We are especially thankful to several clients extending their contracts, such as HPRundit, and Valuation Metrics. The latter has been acquired by Citadel Securities, and after going through a procurement process, we've become their software developer partner. We feel very honored to continue as their tech partner for the long ride! 
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Our events 📅

Tomorrow: Netta Gilon (ex-COO @ Playtika)
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