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Torchlight with Aaron Francis
Photo of Zuzana Kunckova Photo of Dave Hicking
43 minute podcast
Aaron Francis (our first outside guest!) joins us this week to talk all about his amazing package Torchlight — what it is, how it works, and what’s coming...

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Welcome to Season 4!
Photo of Zuzana Kunckova Photo of Dave Hicking
4 minute podcast
For this upcoming season, we’re switching things up a bit with a new co-host and maybe even some special...
Learning Laravel

Assets and Authentication

Photo of Kristin Collins Kristin Collins
9 minute read
Learn to install Laravel Breeze and create a custom Tailwind CSS theme.
Catching Up Laravel

How to Safely and Efficiently Upgrade an Out-of-Date Laravel App

Photo of Jamison Valenta
11 minute read
If you're running a Laravel application in the 5's, have a legacy application bootstrapped inside Laravel, don't have any tests, or are staring in silent terror at just how long ago your production server's php version hit its end-of-life, this post is for you!
Extensible Blade Components
Photo of Marcus Moore Marcus Moore
18 minute read
HTML is wonderful, right? What would we do without it? But anyone who's written HTML without a templating system knows how much of it is just chunks of code copied and pasted from file to file. Modern templating systems, like Laravel's Blade...
The Tighten Manifesto
Photo of Dan Sheetz Photo of Matt Stauffer Photo of Dave Hicking
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...
You Aren’t Gonna Need It (YAGNI)
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23 minute podcast
Sara Bine (a Lead Programmer at Tighten) joins us this week to talk all about YAGNI aka ‘You Aren’t Gonna Need It’: what it is, why it’s so important for anybody who’s building software, and more. Transcript Dave...
You Are Not Your Job
Photo of Marje Holmstrom-Sabo Photo of Dave Hicking
36 minute podcast
Marje Holmstrom-Sabo, Operations & Content Manager at Tighten, returns to the show this week to talk about why you are not your job, the difference between your work and your job, and a lot more. Transcript Dave...
Why You Should Speak at Conferences
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26 minute podcast
Kristin Collins (a Lead Programmer at Tighten) joins us for her second time on the show, and this time she’s talking about conference talks: why you should consider doing them, how to get started, and a lot more. Transcript...
React Hooks for Beginners: Managing State
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6 minute read
We’ve been using React at Tighten for almost as long as we’ve been using Vue. In fact, one of our most-read blog post series is an extensive React tutorial by former...
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