Gaslight Blog
To build lasting impact with our clients, their end-users, and our community.
Sure, we love to geek out over technology and design. But it's all for a bigger purpose - boosting your business. Through development, design and business categories here on our blog - we break down our best practices, what to look for when it comes to software development, and how you can in fact, leverage technology.
07/20/21
How we’re implementing the GGOB: Profit-Sharing
I’ve long been a fan of the business management and ownership philosophy espoused by Jack Stack in the classic book “The Great Game of Business”. In the book, Jack describes...
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06/21/21
How to get Elixir and Phoenix up and running
Maybe you’ve recently read an awesome blog post about Elixir and would like to try it out for yourself or you are simply trying to get back into it after...
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06/14/21
Rails ActiveRecord Scopes With Arguments
I came across another interesting syntax used in a Rails application. scope :graduated_after, ->(date) { where('graduation_date > ?', date) } Warning: Before we start please note that variable scoping in...
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06/03/21
Theory of Change: How we tackle the Discovery
I was recently talking with a colleague about our Product Discovery and he introduced me to an old concept I was unfamiliar with: the Theory of Change (ToC). This is...
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05/27/21
Preparing a Hot/Cold Meter Usability Study
UX research is a muscle every product designer should be able to flex. Side projects are a great way to refine and understand the research process. Following a process, eliminating...
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05/20/21
Distributed Elixir with Livebook
Livebook recently dropped and I was curious to see what the hype was all about. I had dabbled with ipython notebook (Jupyter) long ago, so I was curious to see...
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