Hello from Kryzz (Liz + Krystan) here at Skylight! We've been hard at work revamping the new Skylight Smarketing [https://www.skylight.io/] (marketing + documentation) site. Now that it's deployed, we'd love to tell you about it. The old site was in dire need of…
Hello from Dylan and Brett at Tilde again, posting one last time. We're finishing up our internship at Tilde and moving out into the great big world of software development long-term employment. But before we do that, we wanted to share a bit about our experience. The…
At Skylight we often use Feature Flags to ship code as soon as possible. Once a feature nears completion, we announce it to our Insiders and give them access to the feature's flag. Skylight Insiders get a behind-the-scenes peek at features in development, allowing them to…
Skylight Insiders receive periodic updates from the engineers building and maintaining our product. These updates are personal, technical and informal; our so called developer journal entries. This blog post is a repost of the Skylight Insiders email from October 28th, where our newest pair of Interns introduced themselves. To sign…
As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, we recently rolled out the ability for Skylight app owners to connect their Skylight app to a GitHub repo in order to take advantage of the various permissions associated with it. This means you can now give access to a particular Skylight…
The Skylight gem [https://rubygems.org/gems/skylight] is a central part of the Skylight product and it's been stuck in at pre-1.0 for far too long. Today, we've released version 1.0.0, officially signifying that it's stable and mature! Along…
Here at Skylight we've been working really hard the last few months on a bunch of cool new features that coincidentally ended up being done around the same time. We didn't exactly plan it that way, but I like to think we are developing a particular…
Yarn [https://yarnpkg.com/] is a new package manager for JavaScript, announced this morning [https://code.facebook.com/posts/1840075619545360], and we're proud to have helped make it happen. It's been a pleasure working with our friends at Facebook, Google and Exponent and we can'…
While Skylight itself supports Rails 5 automatically, we had not yet upgraded the Rails portion of the app on our end until last week. I optimistically volunteered to make the upgrade, thinking it would not take more than a day, maybe two, tops. Not so much. For context, although I&…
🎉🎂🍻In case you haven't heard about it yet, Rails 5.0 has just been released [https://rubygems.org/gems/rails/versions/5.0.0]! Just like a lot of you, we are very excited about this release. If you are curious, David wrote a blog post [http://weblog.…
