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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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