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Samantha Geitz

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How I (Mostly) Overcame My Fear of Public Speaking

Oct 17, 2018 · Samantha Geitz

At the end of last year, I set a goal for myself to speak at a handful of conferences in 2018. At the time, it had been almost two years since my last speaking engagement, and I knew that sharing some of the knowledge I’d gained was the best way to...

Tighten Dev Battle 2: Four Brains. Two Screens. One Native App.

May 23, 2018 · Samantha Geitz

About a year ago, we streamed the inaugural Tighten Dev Battle, during which senior developers Samantha Geitz...

A Look at the Tighten Crew's Battlestations

Sep 15, 2017 · Samantha Geitz

Tighten is a 100% remote company, and one of the best parts about working from home is that you're able to set up your office however you'd like. Today, we thought we'd give you a peek into the inner sanctums of the Tighten crew...

Tighten Senior Dev Battle: JavaScript Death Match

May 16, 2017 · Samantha Geitz

There are two issues that cause a bitter divide within the Tighten family: 1) The proper pronunciation of the word "gif" 2) The best JavaScript framework in the year 2017: Vue or React While we...

UX Lessons Learned from a Snapchat Addiction

Jan 27, 2017 · Samantha Geitz

In the last few weeks, despite my inclinations to the contrary, I have become a Snapchat addict. (I have also decided to double-down on becoming a Millennial cliche by adding the term “bae” to my regular lexicon, but I digress.) In that short...

Why You Should be Giving Your Developers 20% time

Dec 2, 2016 · Samantha Geitz

About a year ago, Tighten officially implemented a "20% time" policy for its developers. This means that, on any given week, we only bill our clients for 32 hours of developer work; for the other 8 hours, developers can work on whatever projects...

You Might Not Need Redux

Oct 28, 2016 · Samantha Geitz

One of the best things about React is how large and vibrant its ecosystem is: there are robust libraries to help with everything from forms to HTTP requests to state management, making it far easier to build incredibly complex and scalable...

Adding React Components to a Laravel Application

Sep 30, 2016 · Samantha Geitz

It's no secret that Vue.js is a favorite in the Laravel community, but what if you want to use React in a Laravel project? While Laravel isn't set up to use React...

Caffeine Fiends: Coffee and Tea When You Work from Home

Aug 11, 2016 · Samantha Geitz

At Tighten, if there's anything we take as seriously as our code, it's our caffeine addictions. Because we all work from home (or our own individual offices), there's no shared, decades-old office Mr. Coffee that nobody ever cleans; we are responsible...

Pair Programming at a 100% Remote Company

Aug 3, 2016 · Samantha Geitz

At Tighten, one of the ways we ensure high-quality work is to always try to avoid putting code into production without at least one other set of eyes reviewing it. While on single-developer projects this often comes in the form of a code review from...

Tools of the Trade: Software We Love (or Tolerate) at Tighten

Jul 21, 2016 · Samantha Geitz

Sometimes it's easy for us to forget just how much software goes into the process of writing software. All day long, we interact with tools that are the result of thousands of hours of work from developers just like us. Above all, we expect these...

React 101, Part 4: Firebase

May 25, 2016 · Samantha Geitz

Last updated 06/01/17 to use Create React App, Redux Form v6, React-Router v4, and Firebase v3. Looking for the old version of the code? Find it here...

React 101, Part 3: Routing and Auth

May 11, 2016 · Samantha Geitz

Last updated 06/01/17 to use Create React App, Redux Form v6, React-Router v4, and Firebase v3. Looking for the old version of the code? Find it here...

React 101, Part 2: Refactoring with Redux

Apr 20, 2016 · Samantha Geitz

Last updated 06/01/17 to use Create React App, Redux Form v6, React-Router v4, and Firebase v3. Looking for the old version of the code? Find it here...

React 101, Part 1: Building a GIF search engine

Mar 24, 2016 · Samantha Geitz

Last updated 06/01/17 to use Create React App, Redux Form v6, React-Router v4, and Firebase v3. Looking for the old version of the code? Find it here...

Unpacking Webpack

Taking your first steps toward a new paradigm in build processes

Feb 1, 2016 · Samantha Geitz

Introduction You might have heard some of the buzz around Webpack in the last few months. If you’re anything like me, you probably took one look at it, decided not to bother with its hipster black...

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