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Switching to Plausible: A privacy-friendly analytics tool for MarsBased

At MarsBased, we value privacy, simplicity, and open‑source tools. We replaced Google Analytics with Plausible, a lightweight, privacy‑first solution. This shift keeps us GDPR‑compliant while still providing the insights we need.

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How AI helped us bring back one-on-ones at MarsBased

With the help of AI, we finally solved one of our biggest management challenges at MarsBased, keeping one-on-ones consistent, meaningful, and well-documented across the team.

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Active Job Continuations: The end of lost jobs

Rails 8.1 brings a feature that's going to change how we handle long-running jobs: Active Job Continuations. Finally, we can interrupt and resume jobs without losing progress.

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Building powerful mobile apps with MarsBased

MarsBased builds powerful cross-platform mobile apps using React Native and Ionic. Discover how we’ve helped companies like Aparcango, Nieves Energía, DPL ETT, and Vies Verdes launch scalable, user-friendly apps that drive growth and engagement.

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Rails World 2025 Recap

Two intense days, dozens of talks, and one bag full of swag. Our teammate Jose attended Rails World 2025 in Amsterdam, here’s a personal recap of everything that inspired, surprised, and excited us about the future of Rails.

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Jordi Miró

The power of taking a day before deciding

The power of taking a day before deciding, be calm.

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Calm entrepreneurship

We have to normalise calm entrepreneurship. The culture of grinding is dead.

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NIS2 and GDPR

Are you prepared for NIS2?

The new European directive is coming into full effect, and we wanted to be prepared for it so we can help you.

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How we rebuilt HappyScribe’s website with a headless CMS

How we gave HappyScribe full control of their website, and made their marketing team faster than ever.

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AI scales

AI is creating MORE jobs

I keep hearing that “AI is killing developer jobs.” Let’s zoom out and see whether that is actually true.

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Rust for NodeJS developers (IV) - SQLx CLI

Rust for NodeJS developers (IV) - SQLx CLI

In this article, we'll explore SQLx - a robust database toolkit for Rust.

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Holafly

MarsBased welcomes Holafly as our new client

We're excited to announce our new partnership with Holafly, a fast-growing company revolutionizing global connectivity with eSIM technology. MarsBased will be enhancing their Shopify app and helping rebuild their B2B platform. This collaboration is a fantastic opportunity to showcase our expertise and support Holafly's global growth.

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