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The World's Your Stage: An Interview with Senior Crafter Ian Carroll

8th Light’s modern apprenticeship program allows us to hire software professionals from a wide range of backgrounds, and Ian Carroll is no exception. In an...more.

Learning to Learn With Metacognition

Software is a complex and ever evolving domain. As software developers, this means that, in order to stay on top of changes in the field,...more.

Jon Wettersten joins 8th Light as Head of Design

8th Light is pleased to announce that it has greatly advanced its mission to be the partner of choice for ambitious software development projects by...more.

SQL, JSON, and Domain Objects

SQL databases are amazing. They give you tools to create extremely powerful guarantees about the integrity of your data, evolve that data over time, and...more.

Dependency Injection in React

Dependency injection is a form of inversion of control. This means that a component’s dependencies are not part of a component’s internals, they are defined...more.

A Case Study in Vim Script 101: Making a Test Runner

Tony Distinti
05 Jan 2021
Tools
Testing

"Hello there, what's this?" you ask. It's a case study in how one might use Vim script, a programming language built in to Vim. We'll...more.

Simple Ways to Make an Impact

Software engineering can be incredibly complex. There are a variety of tools, software patterns, architectural decisions, and process flows. This can be daunting for a...more.

Jenny Farver joins 8th Light as co-CEO

I’m very happy to announce that Jenny Farver has joined 8th Light as co-CEO. We are at an exciting point in our company’s history, and...more.

Dare to be Good Enough—You'll be Happier for it

As I sit down to write, I noticed a tug at the back of my neck—a tension forming as I begin editing my words obsessively....more.

Your Values are the Rules You Break

Recently, I encountered a conversation about "clean code." This was in the context of an engineering organization trying to improve the quality of its output....more.

Improving Agile Process at Scale

Recently, in preparation to deliver agile training for a shipment tracking company, I was struck by how many of the comments I heard from stakeholders...more.

A maintainable, scalable front-end

If you're like me, you have a love-hate relationship with styling. Probably because along with HTML, these languages seem to force you to enact poor...more.

How E. Coli Taught Me To Work Smarter

In my previous post, I talked a little bit about how, if I can't think of a good solution from the onset, I sometimes start...more.

On Anxiety, Uncertainty, and Flow

I have encountered this graph twice in my time at 8th Light: once during my onboarding at the beginning of my apprenticeship, and again when...more.

ExState: Database-backed statecharts for Elixir and Ecto

On a recent project, working with Elixir, Ecto, and Phoenix, we were encountering difficulty modeling and managing a complex business workflow. This is a fairly...more.

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