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In this episode of the Business of Laravel podcast, host Matt Stauffer sits down with Ben Holmen, CTO of the Boutique Hub, a community of boutique owners and brands dedicated to strengthening small businesses. Ben shares insights into his role, where...

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How Aaron Francis Turned a Layoff Into a Thriving Educational Empire | Aaron Francis, Co-founder of Try Hard Studios

Jun 25 · Matt Stauffer

In this episode of the Business of Laravel podcast, host Matt Stauffer interviews Aaron Francis, co-founder of Try Hard Studios, beloved Internet personality, Laravel developer, and all-around Internet nice guy. Aaron shares his journey from his days...

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From Terrible Employee to Open Source Entrepreneur: Caleb Porzio's Playbook | Caleb Porzio, Creator of Livewire & Alpine.js

Jun 11 · Matt Stauffer, Caleb Porzio

In this week's episode of the Business of Laravel podcast, host Matt Stauffer talks with Caleb Porzio, a prominent figure in the Laravel community and the creator of Livewire and Alpine.js. Caleb shares his unconventional journey from being a...

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Hiring Taylor Otwell to build HelpSpot and Laravel at the same time | Ian Landsman, Founder of HelpSpot

May 29 · Matt Stauffer

In our very first episode, Matt had the pleasure of speaking with Ian Landsman, affectionately known as the 'Godfather of Laravel,' where they discussed his long history with Laravel and his business journey. Ian shared insights into his primary...

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Why Agility–not Agile–is the Best Tool for Project Management

Aug 8, 2023 · Matt Stauffer

You don’t need Agile to be agile on your next software development project. Learn how to focus on true progress rather than adhere to a rigid set of rules.

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What Makes A Code Audit Effective?

Jun 8, 2023 · Dan Sheetz, Matt Stauffer

Learn which factors to consider for an effective code audit that meets your needs, and why a third-party audit is a smart investment for your team.

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Five Ways Automated Testing Catches Issues Humans Can’t

May 31, 2023 · Matt Stauffer

Using automated testing for your app may seem more costly up-front, but it’s a valuable investment in the long run. Learn 5 ways it saves you time & money.

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How We Help Our Developers Get More Done in 4 Days Than Most Do in 5

Apr 11, 2023 · Matt Stauffer

Our take on the 4 day work week is called 20% Time. Learn how it increases the quality of our work and benefits your team’s software development project.

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Announcing Duster, a Code Linter and Fixer for Laravel

Mar 8, 2023 · Matt Stauffer, Anthony Clark

At Tighten, we’ve long believed that individual programmers shouldn’t waste their time worrying about code formatting. Early in our history, Tighten alum Adam Wathan saw Matt wasting time reviewing code style issues and built an entire CI tool,...

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The Tighten Manifesto

May 6, 2022 · Dan Sheetz, Matt Stauffer, Dave Hicking

Dan Sheetz & Matt Stauffer (Tighten's Managing Director & Technical Director, respectively) join us this week for the last episode of season 3 to talk all about the Tighten Manifesto - how it was created, what it aims to achieve, how to live...

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All About Hiring

Apr 10, 2020 · Matt Stauffer, Dave Hicking

Tighten is relaunching Twenty Percent Time and we're starting Season 2 by talking with our CTO Matt Stauffer about all things hiring: when & why Tighten decides to hire, what we look for, what we wish people knew when applying, and...

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Announcing Tighten's Laracon 2018 Grant

Dec 23, 2017 · Matt Stauffer, Dan Sheetz, Marje Holmstrom-Sabo

Tighten has sent a contingent to Laracon US for the last four years, and we've loved the opportunities and relationships that have come from our time there. We've tried to give back with talks, sponsorships, fun events, and more. But this year, we...

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A Brief Introduction to Progressive Web Apps, or PWAs

Jun 5, 2017 · Matt Stauffer

If you're like me, you like to keep at the relative forefront of frontend web development, but trying to stay on the bleeding edge is exhausting. I know Vue and React and ES6; I haven't touched broccoli, next.js, or whatever else is the newest...

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The Inaugural Tighten Dev Battle: A Retrospective

May 23, 2017 · Matt Stauffer

Last week was Tighten's annual company on-site, where we bring the entire company together in one place for a few days to get to know each other, make plans for the future, and accomplish a few high-level tasks that are easier in person--for example,...

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Q&A With The Speakers from Laracon Online 2017

Mar 10, 2017 · Caleb Porzio, Matt Stauffer

Wednesday was the inaugural Laracon Online, an online conference devoted to bringing great Laravel teaching to folks who may not be able to attend an in-person conference. Tighten co-founder Matt Stauffer spoke on...

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Let the Developers Carry Your Message

Nov 4, 2016 · Matt Stauffer

Tighten loves the Cubs. Dan's a lifetime Cubs fan and he finally got me on the bandwagon this summer, and even folks in the company who weren't previously fans became fans temporarily when Dan promised the whole company a day off in the case of a Cubs...

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MailThief by Tighten - a Package for Testing Mail in Laravel

Jun 29, 2016 · Matt Stauffer

Last week we launched a package called MailThief that's designed to make it simple to test your Laravel mail. Laravel's current integration testing features make it easy to test that certain...

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Introducing Laravel Echo

Jun 17, 2016 · Matt Stauffer

Tighten partner Matt Stauffer has written an in-depth introduction to Laravel's new Event Broadcasting tool, Echo. So, what is Laravel Echo? It's a tool that makes it easy for you to bring the power of WebSockets to your Laravel...

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The Great Tighten Experiment

Creating the company we'd want to work for

Jun 9, 2016 · Matt Stauffer

Dan and I are asked often about the backstory of Tighten. How did Tighten begin? That's an interesting-ish story, I guess, but what's more interesting to me is, "why?" There are other consultancies out there; why put ourselves through the stress of...

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Introducing Jigsaw, a Static Site Generator for Laravel Developers

Apr 11, 2016 · Matt Stauffer

That's right, Tighten has created a Laravel-based static site generator named Jigsaw, and we think it's pretty great. Before I write another line of this post, I want to address the looming question:...

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Setting Up Your First Vue.js Site Using Laravel Elixir and Vueify

Mar 17, 2016 · Matt Stauffer

It's true what they say—there seems to be a new JavaScript framework every day. We haven't tried them all at Tighten, but we've tried quite a few, and while we've found some lacking, we've found one that truly excels: Vue.js. It's not actually new,...

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Creating a Password-less, Medium-style, Email-only Authentication System in Laravel

Mar 11, 2016 · Matt Stauffer

Recently I was working on a project where one of our major pain points was users' passwords. Users were added to the application by administrators, so they didn't have passwords when they were first added, and forcing them to set and remember...

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Statamic v2 Beta: First Impressions of a New Laravel-based Flat-file CMS

How a flat-file CMS may just be able to bridge the gap between traditional CMS and static site generator

Jan 29, 2016 · Matt Stauffer

I've been a CMS guy for a long time. The first web site I was paid to create—back in 2000, I think—was hand-written PHP, but I quickly made my way through MovableType, then WordPress, and finally ExpressionEngine before I moved out of the CMS...

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Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Creating the company we'd want to work for

How a flat-file CMS may just be able to bridge the gap between traditional CMS and static site generator