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.
02/25/21
CinciJS February 2021: JavaScript the Grumpy Parts
We love JavaScript, but we must admit: it’s weird. Why does `this` behave as it does? How does variable scope work? Why do we have such comical behavior when comparing...
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02/16/21
Fluid Typography, Simplified
Along with responsive design came responsive typography, and now quickly on the rise is the concept of fluid typography. When I first started hearing the term “fluid typography,” my immediate...
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01/21/21
A Quick Look at Stimulus.js
Stimulus.js is a JavaScript framework often associated with Hotwire: a new addition to the Ruby on Rails framework. In preparation for a future article on Hotwire, I started with a...
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01/12/21
What are you doing to manage your technical debt?
If your company has a custom software product, technical debt is inevitable. If you aren’t familiar with the term, “technical debt” refers to the cost of reworking previously written code....
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12/22/20
Getting creative with constantize in Ruby on Rails
In a recent project, our static code analyzer, Rubocop, complained that a case statement we had written made our code too complex. In this article, I am going to show...
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12/17/20
Rails New: Active Record
In the first two posts of this series, we’ve skimmed the basics of Ruby on Rails in the form of a quick getting started guide, followed by a shallow dive...
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