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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...
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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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What I Learned at
The Basecamp Way To Work
Workshop
Jul 15, 2016
· Dan Sheetz
Last week, along with 40ish of my peers, I attended Basecamp's latest Way to Work Workshop here in Chicago. We were treated to a window into the inner...
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MailThief by Tighten - a Package for Testing Mail in Laravel
Jun 29, 2016
· Matt Stauffer
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...
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Introducing Laravel Echo
Jun 17, 2016
· Matt Stauffer
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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