Aquesta setmana, a Foc a Terra, anem forts. Ahir comentàvem el cas aquest del Piqué i José Elías, enxampats amb insider trading i l'absoluta impunitat amb què es mouen alguns pel món dels negocis - i per la vida en general. focaterra.cat/episodi/232

Ara flipareu, hi ha festivals de música on no hi mana Estrella. No, no surten a tv3.

I wrote about the demo limbo: where all vibe-coded side-projects you build for yourself go to die. Mostly, because you just scratched an itch to build, but didn't really need the tool, or because building something and making it work are two different things. www.alexrodba.com/the-demo-lim...

A aquest món que sembla que ens porti irremeiablement al col·lapse, avui hi ha un motiu que equilibra la balança i que alimenta l'esperança. OBESES - l'ai al cor musicaglobal.lnk.to/l-ai-al-cor-...

PSA for dev agencies and freelancers: there's an active scam campaign targeting us. Someone named "Cole Ambrose" from thekreatively.com is sending cold enquiries via contact forms. Well, it's actually this fake profile Cole Ambrose.

Yet another former client of MarsBased gets acquired. My heartfelt congrats to our friends at Restb.ai 🤘 www.clearcapital.com/clear-capita...

I'm considering having guest posts on my newsletter for the summer months. Would you like to write a piece with your best advice for founders? DM me.

Starbucks "wrong name on the coffee cups" moment by Claude

Every new version of Spotify is slower than the preceding. It's like they have decreasing speed and worsening UX as one of their core KPIs. Absolute nonsense.

La setmana passada, vam tenir el plaer de conversar amb l'Eduard Romeu Barceló a Foc a Terra, l'home que va portar el concepte de les palanques econòmiques al Barça. No us ho perdeu. Com diria el mestre Josep M. Ganyet, entra a examen: podcasts.apple.com/es/podcast/f...

One of my favourite albums of all time open.spotify.com/album/3FcHkp... 🤘

I've poured my heart out on this issue of Founder to Founder this week. I find it very hard to know when to stop building to start fixing... and the other way around. Anyone else feeling this, as a founder? www.alexrodba.com/build-vs-fix/

Excited about this! not sure it'll last long, though www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BDA...

Esta semana os traemos a Alberto Betella (co-fundador de RSS.com y ex-CTO de Telefonica Alpha, Koa Health y Badi), para un Road to CTO muy especial. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QqO...

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Informació de servei: Ja han nascut els 6 aneguets de l’estany dels Jardins del Baix Guinardó. De res.

They say that podcasts take 5 years to take off. Couldn't be more precise: ours went from 300 subscribers on youtube to 5000 this year only. From hundreds of views to tens of thousands. That, and the magic of our very own David, from marketing 🔥 www.youtube.com/@MarsBased

As we adapt to the market changes, by way of embracing AI fully as a development company, we are going to share more and more how we use AI with tangible returns. My co-founder, Jordi Vendrell wrote about how we use AI for product management in our projects: marsbased.com/blog/2026/04...

Episodi especial sobre el relleu de Tim Cook - o Tim Apple per alguns - al capdavant d'Apple. Feia temps que no féiem un episodi de Foc you a Foc a Terra, i els trobava a faltar. Ja vam fer el de Sam Altman. De qui voldrieu que féssim un Foc you dedicat, properament? focaterra.cat/episodi/230/

Muchas - muchísimas - ganas de publicar este episodio. Hace muchos años que quería grabar un episodio con Ricard Clau y al final lo hicimos en el mejor momento. Seguro que inspirará a mucha gente a querer ser CTO y a hacerlo siendo buena persona. Es posible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI69...

La meva primera cançó de De André va ser "La canzone dell'amore perduto", al primer i únic curs d'italià que vaig fer, ara farà gairebé 20 anys. De André ha estat un dels millors professors que he tingut, sense haver-lo conegut. Gran @rogermas.bsky.social 🤘 open.spotify.com/track/7bjFOw...

Los jets privados de las grandes empresas y fortunas españolas contaminaron lo mismo que un millón de pasajeros

❤️‍🔥 Divendres 15 de maig publicarem «l'ai al cor - DIÀSTOLE», la segona part de «l'ai al cor» amb la qual culminarem el 6è disc d'OBESES! Avui us presentem la portada i la llista de peces que en formaran part. www.obeses.cat/concerts

Aquesta setmana, a Foc a Terra, us portem el Gerard Giménez, de subvencions.cat i contractes.cat, i ens explica com van sorgir els projectes, i què ha causat tant de revol als mitjans... però la versió de debò, no la que veureu a tv3 i a mitjans tradicionals. focaterra.cat/episodi/229

If you're not building your own memory persistence app using AI you're giving away your memory for free and putting it at risk of disappearance.

Bon dia! open.spotify.com/album/1yENAh... 🤘

@tamayostuff.bsky.social Bones Carles! voldríem convidar-te al pòdcast #1 de negocis i tecnologia en català per a entrevistar-te i donar (més) difusió a la bona feina que fas. T'apuntes?

I'm sharing how I manage my own whatsapp since everyone started using it for business and personal, completely obliterating personal spaces, limits and ways to disconnect. Now, it's not possible, but there's still one or two things you can do. www.alexrodba.com/the-whatsapp...

We're hiring (again). At MarsBased, we're growing our business for the 12th year straight, and it seems that with AI we have more work, not less. marsbased.com/jobs/full-st...

Bon dia! open.spotify.com/album/3Bcgkc... 🤘

Playing the classics 🤘 open.spotify.com/album/44zdON...

How often do you audit yourself or assess if you're doing the right job and how do you do it?

Recomanació. “[…] Un exercici de transparència d'on van els nostres calerons.” Explicat. No com als diaris o la tele. “Parlarem de vibecoding, de sortir a la tele, de la fama i de molt més, amb el Gerard Giménez Adsuar.” - @alexrodba.com www.youtube.com/live/V0Z-Caw...

La semana pasada tuvimos a François Derbaix, de Indexa Capital, en el podcast de MarsBased, para hablar de bootstrapping, pensar a largo plazo, diseño de producto en el sector finanzas, incentivos y mucho más. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLMw...

Aquesta setmana, a Foc a Terra, us parlem de Dark Patterns (o patrons enganyosos), com el Roach Motel, hidden costs, Confirmshaming, false urgency, Privacy zuckering i més. Si no saps a què ens referim amb tots aquests termes, potser caldria que escoltis l'episodi. focaterra.cat/episodi/228/

The new slogan of SaaS: software you can't trust

It feels damn good to be a developer again. Enter the era of "fuck you code": www.alexrodba.com/f-you-code/

Last week, we hosted the mighty, MIGHTY, Linus Ekenstam on the MarsBased podcast to discuss the frantic pace of AI in product, design and development, managing multiple projects in parallel, authority in AI & ethics in business. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkTc...

Aquesta setmana, a Foc a Terra, us portem la Judith Urbano Lorente per explicar-nos on som, per què som aquí i per què Barcelona és com és i és on és. Parlem d'història, arquitectura, urbanisme, de grecs i romans, de docència i dels cables. Riem molt, i aprenem més. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gio...

Here's my latest article about something that's been on the back on my mind for years now: the snooze fatigue. A tax we pay every time we postpone a task. www.alexrodba.com/the-snooze-f...

Playing the classics open.spotify.com/album/6ppFMt... 🤘

No matter how good AI becomes, it still can't help me to have fewer than 50 open tabs on my browser windows.

Curves ahead red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-...

La semana pasada tuvimos a Ilya Zayats, en Road to CTO, para que nos contara su viaje hasta llegar a Factorial, con sus retos como emprendedor, creando su propia empresa, hasta llegar al ecosistema de itnig. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H49m...

Nos reíamos de los criptobros y no vimos venir lo de los cristobros.

Tried Manus for about 5 minutes. It couldn't log into my facebook account, which was open in the same browser. Tried to force-feed me paid options without showing me the free plan. Bye 👋

Aquesta setmana, a Foc a Terra, us portem un matxembrat de temes d'actualitat: des del llançament de Factory Floor per part del nostríssim @davidpoblador.com, dels últims moviments de Claude que han forçat que MarsBased reféssim l'estratègia d'enguany al gener i molt més. rss.com/podcasts/foc...

People posting AI slop on LinkedIN show how desperate they are for attention to grow their projects.

Am i alone in thinking that vibecoding is like cooking with the thermomix?

Gemini is rolling out "Plan mode" 👀