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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...

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...

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...

Building Your Sense of Code Smell with Mindfulness

Oct 19, 2016 · Daniel Coulbourne

There is a feeling familiar to many programmers. You're sitting (or standing, if you're fancy) at your desk, working on a programming problem, when out of nowhere you’re overcome with what can only be called a “weird vibe.” You start to...

A Better dd() for Your TDD

Oct 7, 2016 · Keith Damiani

An important part of every Laravel developer's debugging arsenal is the humble dd() helper function—"dump and die"—to output the contents of a variable and terminate...

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...

Lambo: Quick New Application Creation with Laravel and Valet

Sep 21, 2016 · Jamison Valenta

Imagine, if you will, a web developer who, for some reason, wants to spin up a Laravel app to develop in as quickly as humanly possible. Maybe this developer wants to write a blog post about a new feature in Laravel, or wants a quick test...

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...

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