Rails teams, what are you meant to do with structure.sql?

One of the big unsolved mysteries about building a Rails app in a team — at least, in my team — is what you should do about the structure.sql file. I feel like it is far and away the thing that confuses both new and experienced…

Getting started with React Native: A designer’s experience

Lessons learned from jumping head first…

Designing Rosters in the Tanda Mobile App

In January 2017, I started my paid summer internship at Tanda. Our task was to design…

Why do we ‘prefer-const’

At Tanda, on all of our newer projects, we use a fairly strict ESLint config. This is largely due to the fact that I’m a bit of a tooling nerd, and also because I like the consistency they bring to the codebase.

5 things you should forget when you finish uni

It’s that time of the year again when a whole bunch of students are finishing uni, and a bunch more are looking forward to spending the holidays of freedom. They are also, probably, stressing about internships and jobs. I was a grad myself 5 years…

Releasing a React Native application

How we handle releasing an app across multiple pipelines to…

What do you do here? (Growth Gang edition)

From the outside looking in, it’s sometimes hard to know what everyone at a software as a service company actually does. Tanda employs over 80 people, but I imagine to the outside world it’s a mystery what most of them do (that’s certainly how I feel…