https://www.cristinaponcela.com/Personal website and tech blog by Cristina Poncela Cubeiro, a Software and ML Engineer, and Full-Stack Developer. 2026-04-01T12:04:25+02:00 Cristina Poncela Cubeiro https://www.cristinaponcela.com/ Jekyll © 2026 Cristina Poncela Cubeiro /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2025-11-14T14:42:00+01:00 2026-04-01T09:32:04+02:00 https://www.cristinaponcela.com/posts/87-Features-in-10-Months/ Cristina Poncela Cubeiro

After a year full of learning and coding adventures, my time at Bending Spoons has come to an end as I pursue a different venture. Thanks to its extremely dynamic and autonomous culture, in the last 10 months (been here for 12, but the first 2 were training), I have built and shipped 87 features completely independently. This has amounted to a total of, drum roll, 214 PRs! I want to use this a...

2025-11-11T14:42:00+01:00 2026-03-31T10:13:43+02:00 https://www.cristinaponcela.com/posts/Technical-SEO-Localized-Pages,-Backlinks,-Indexing-and-More/ Cristina Poncela Cubeiro

Recently, the team decided to focus on our SEO scores, and find ways in which we could improve them. Since I was the designated person for this, I learned a bunch about indexing pages, sitemaps, canonical and hreflangs, and so in just a week. Localized Version of SSR Pages The first clear point that stood out was localized pages - when only the default english page is indexed, it damages your...

2025-10-31T14:42:00+01:00 2026-03-30T14:36:58+02:00 https://www.cristinaponcela.com/posts/Technical-SEM-Targeting-Users-Through-Google-Ads,-With-A-Twist/ Cristina Poncela Cubeiro

One thing I love from my current SWE job is that at Bending Spoons, SWEs have agency over a lot more than just code. We are also expected to be able to propose metrics, handle feature communications to users, come up with ideas for the product, and even help with notions like SEM (Search Engine Marketing) and SEO (Search Engine Optimization). While these would be traditionally aspects handled b...

2025-10-20T15:42:00+02:00 2026-03-30T22:31:39+02:00 https://www.cristinaponcela.com/posts/YouTube-Categories-API/ Cristina Poncela Cubeiro

YouTube Categories Implementation: Handling Multi-Platform Category Selection One of the main challenges of StreamYard is the massive amount of different user experiences that have to be tested: we have several subscription tiers, team roles, and different platforms that allow for different functionalities. YouTube, Twitch, and Kick all allow users to categorize their streams, but each uses di...

2025-10-16T15:42:00+02:00 2026-04-01T09:32:04+02:00 https://www.cristinaponcela.com/posts/How-I-Use-AI-Notes-Tab-and-Teleprompter-with-Claude-Code-and-the-Playwright-MCP/ Cristina Poncela Cubeiro

The challenge we have been facing lately: can I prompt AI well enough, and give it enough context via MCPs or otherwise, that it can autonomously ship bug-free tasks? I have been testing this out recently. In short, the current answer is no: if the task has any complexity, or your codebase is big, complex or has many in-house components, it is not yet possible to fully vibe code a task (or at ...