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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...

Why We ❤ Working Remotely—and Why You Might Too

May 31, 2016 · Ansell Chiu

At Tighten, we run a completely distributed shop—we live and work remotely from two countries, six states, and seven different cities. It’s great! But as great as we think it is, the concept of remote working often prompts all sorts of...

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...

Searchable Documentation (for Free!) with Jigsaw and Algolia DocSearch

May 18, 2016 · Keith Damiani

Good online documentation is one of those things that can be critical to the success of a software project, yet which is always a bit of a pain to build and maintain. Project maintainers, fear not: building and hosting a documentation site just got a...

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...

Simple SSL Verification Using Laravel & Environment Variables

Prove control of your client domains for SSL verification without modifying your project directories

May 4, 2016 · Jamison Valenta

In my previous post, I detailed an nginx config structure for providing white label domain services in your application under SSL. When you...

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...

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:...

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...

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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