Rich Feller Joins 8th Light’s Leadership Team

• Paul Pagel
• 18 Jul 2019
• Craftsmanship
• Community

I am excited to announce that Rich Feller has joined 8th Light’s team as a new Vice President of Product Design & Delivery. We know...more.

8th Light merges with Madriska

• Paul Pagel
• 08 Jul 2019
• Craftsmanship
• Community

I am thrilled to announce that 8th Light has agreed to merge with Madriska, the general web-development consultancy based in Chicago. Madriska’s owner and only...more.

We're All Humans

• Kim Carten
• 02 Jul 2019
• Community

When I joined 8th Light three years ago, I wasn’t sure what to expect. It was a major adjustment. I had just left my job...more.

Effective Slack alerts

• Connor Mendenhall
• 25 Jun 2019
• Tools
• Communications

"I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power." — Don DeLillo, Underworld...more.

"Tech" Care of Yourself: strategies for better mental health in tech

• Marion LV
• 18 Jun 2019
• Mental Health
• Self Care

Have you ever noticed how programming can sometimes feel like you are in a foreign country playing charades with a shopkeeper tucked away in their...more.

Why keeping levels of abstraction matters

• Javier García
• 11 Jun 2019
• Coding
• Principles

Most developers who have been in the profession for at least a couple of years have heard of software principles, if not read about them...more.

Unit Testing Code Boundaries

• Ashley Bye
• 04 Jun 2019
• Testing

When I first learned to unit test my software, I noticed that I struggled to test code that interacted with components at the boundaries of...more.

Remote Team Workflows

• Sarah Sunday
• 28 May 2019
• Remote
• Communications

Being in the same room as the people you are working with is not a luxury we all have. Sometimes we are remote from the...more.

Tutorial: Add a Menu Bar Extra to a macOS App

• Casey Brant
• 21 May 2019
• Coding
• Desktop
• macOS

Intro In this post, I’ll give you a quick rundown of how to create a Menu Bar Extra for your macOS app. The Apple Dev...more.

AWS Security Essentials

• Colin Jones
• 14 May 2019
• AWS
• DevOps
• Quality

Aaron Bedra gave a fantastic talk when he was with Jemurai where he laid out some of the most important areas of thinking around security...more.

Some Common Gotchas in Python

• Shibani Mookerjee
• 07 May 2019
• Coding
• Debugging

As a new Python programmer, I ran into three common language gotchas: passing variables by reference, unbound local errors, and mutable default arguments. Hopefully this...more.

X Marks the Spot (Part 3): A Strong Fit

• Chris Wilson
• 30 Apr 2019
• React
• Reason
• Functional
• Web Development

This is part three (of three) in a series about ReasonML and typed functional programming. You can see the full series here. A Strong Fit...more.

Working with the Enemy: Why Blockchain Adoption is a Social Problem

• Lucas PenzeyMoog
• 23 Apr 2019
• Blockchain

After a year and a half of over-inflated expectations, it appears that we’ve reached the nadir of blockchain’s current hype cycle. Disillusionment has replaced optimism...more.

One Neat Trick To Avoid Rewriting Your Software Product

• Doug Bradbury
• 16 Apr 2019
• Consulting
• Process
• Quality

As the creator of a software product, there are two fundamental ways to grow your revenue: your market grows overall, or you take away market...more.

X Marks the Spot (Part 2): ReasonReact

• Chris Wilson
• 09 Apr 2019
• React
• Reason
• Functional
• Web Development

This is part two (of three) in a series about ReasonML and typed functional programming. Once posted, you can see the full series here. ReasonReact...more.

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