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What is Inclusive Design and Why Should I Care?

Dec 14, 2022 · Anna Youngyeun

When I started my first job as a developer, I talked to a mentor about wanting to learn more about inclusive web design. His response was a disinterested: Oh. That's UX stuff. Learn about Inclusive Design and reasons to avoid that out-of-scope, out-of-mind mindset.

Why Mentoring Matters with Shawn Jones

Nov 11, 2022 · Zuzana Kunckova, Dave Hicking, Shawn Jones

Shawn Jones joins us this week to talk all about mentoring and why it matters for everybody - even (or maybe even especially) developers. Transcript Dave Hicking: Welcome to Twenty Percent Time, a podcast from the...

Meetings Don’t Have To Suck

Oct 28, 2022 · Zuzana Kunckova, Dave Hicking, Molly Fisher, Jeanne Henry

Jeanne Henry (Senior Project Manager at Tighten) and Molly Fisher (Project Manager at Tighten) join us this week to talk about why meetings don't have to suck - and what you should look for in a good...

Are Your Queue Workers ... Working?

Using Envoyer’s heartbeats to ensure your queues are running

Oct 24, 2022 · Jamison Valenta

Let's walk through a simple and lightweight strategy to notify you when a queue isn't processing jobs. I'll give you the code, and talk about some ways I would consider extending it.

Legacy Web Apps

Oct 14, 2022 · Jamison Valenta, Dave Hicking, Zuzana Kunckova

Jamison Valenta (a Programmer at Tighten) joins us this week to dive deep into legacy apps - what to do if you've inherited one, how to know when to upgrade them, and a lot more. Transcript Dave Hicking:...

Turbo Laravel with Tony Messias

Sep 30, 2022 · Zuzana Kunckova, Dave Hicking, Tony Messias

Tony Messias (a programmer at Tighten) joins us this week to talk all about Hotwire & Turbo Laravel - what it is, why he thinks it's interesting, how it works, and more. Transcript Dave Hicking: Welcome to...

Torchlight with Aaron Francis

Sep 16, 2022 · Zuzana Kunckova, Dave Hicking

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...

Welcome to Season 4!

Sep 15, 2022 · Zuzana Kunckova, Dave Hicking

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

Aug 23, 2022 · Kristin Collins

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

Aug 8, 2022 · Jamison Valenta

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!

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