Matt Stauffer

Matt Stauffer

Founder, CTO, & COO

The Tighten Manifesto
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1 hour 15 minute podcast
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...
All About Hiring
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40 minute podcast
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...
Announcing Tighten's Laracon 2018 Grant
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2 minute read
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...
A Brief Introduction to Progressive Web Apps, or PWAs
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17 minute read
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...
The Inaugural Tighten Dev Battle: A Retrospective
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9 minute read
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,...
Q&A With The Speakers from Laracon Online 2017
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24 minute read
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...
Let the Developers Carry Your Message
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6 minute read
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...
MailThief by Tighten - a Package for Testing Mail in Laravel
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1 minute read
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...
Introducing Laravel Echo
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1 minute read
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...
The Great Tighten Experiment

Creating the company we'd want to work for

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9 minute read
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...
Introducing Jigsaw, a Static Site Generator for Laravel Developers
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9 minute read
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:...
Setting Up Your First Vue.js Site Using Laravel Elixir and Vueify
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8 minute read
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,...
Creating a Password-less, Medium-style, Email-only Authentication System in Laravel
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7 minute read
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...
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

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6 minute read
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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