How to create icons correctly aligned with the text
There's a pretty annoying problem with icons when working alongside text. It's called alignment. So, in this blog post, we will show you how we solve this all too common problem.
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Speeding up views rendering in Rails 4
Here's some technical post for the Rails folks out there. If you're into performance optimisation, this is for you!
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Can't believe this is happening
It's been around two years apart, and none of us could really believe meeting again in person was actually happening.
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Font Awesome social share buttons are blocked by AdBlock? Here's how to go around it
So all of the sudden the social sharing buttons disappeared from your website? AdBlock is probably at fault, and here is how to fix it!
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How to implement Cuprite into Capybara
We've all been playing with testing libraries and frameworks for many years, but before doing that, we have to configure them. In this blog post, I'll walk you through my setup of Cuprite with Capybara.
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Celebrating with Martian Breakfasts!
As time goes by, we have more stuff worth celebrating in the company going on, so we've decided to take it up a notch and celebrate small and big teams with a joint virtual breakfast on the company!
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We've updated our handbook to include our new development workflow
As you might probably know, we have a long document called the MarsBased Handbook where we try to describe all our procedures and how we work.
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The importance of saying NO
We have overcome one of the most intense periods at work in the entire life of the company, largely thanks to our ability to say 'no' more than we say 'yes', defying the standards and the etiquette of our industry.
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Be more available to the rest of the team
At MarsBased, we like to review our workflows, tools and policies every now and then because what it used to be good for us, might not be the right fit now. For instance, last year, we changed our project management tool from JIRA to Linear.
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We've adopted Linear for project (and company) management!
At MarsBased, we like to review our workflows, tools and policies every now and then because what it used to be good for us, might not be the right fit now. For instance, last year, we changed our project management tool from JIRA to Linear.
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Thank you 2021 (???!?!?!)
2021 has been one hell of a ride. It has brought us the best and worst moments as a company, so we want to acknowledge all we've done and everyone who has supported us along the way.
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Changes to our Startups Barcelona Slack community
We have been running an online community for entrepreneurs and tech people in Barcelona since 2015, called Startups BCN. We are applying a few changes from now onwards that you should know.
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