This article has been cross-posted on my personal blogAt Knack, one of our key user experiences is the Classroom, a web based audio and…

When starting Knack in 2015, an early decision we made was to use AWS as our primary cloud provider. We started with a single AWS account…

Make the most out of Laravel Factories: How we migrated from Factory MuffinWe use Laravel to power the Knack API that is consumed by our iOS…

Welcome to the Berlin release and while Quinn loves to talk my ear off about his adventures in Berlin, I personally have never been there…

Asheville is a small city in the mountains of North Carolina. They have great food, nature, and breweries.Push NotificationsWe rebuilt our…

Hamburg is a major port city in northern Germany. It has 2,500 bridges, which is the most bridges of any city in the world! In fact, it is…

Today we shipped the St. Pete release, a city that neighbors Tampa, FL and is home of some of the best coffee shops in the United States (at…

Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands where everything seems to be legal. It’s also one of my favorite cities to bike around in and…

Kajang is a town in southeastern Selangor, Malaysia famous for its satay, a form of skewered barbecued meat. It’s the town that Hae-Yang’s…

Manta is a port city in Ecuador where my family and I are from. It’s a town I’m very proud to call home and a town that gave me my deep love…

Despite what everyone says about the constant rain, Seattle is a wonderful city with great food, live music, and natural beauty.iPad…

Cape Town otherwise known as the Cape of good hope or the mother city. My old stomping grounds and yet another city in need of a good visit…

Continuing with our 2021 city theme, we’re off with our sixth release of the year, the Vichy release. Tutor Training Awareness…

Mexico City is home to 21 million people, making it the largest Spanish-speaking city in the world. The city is also the oldest capital city…

Somehow we’re already onto our fourth release of the year. The city of choice this time is São Paulo, the sprawling economic and scientific…

Continuing with our 2021 themes being the world’s most populated cities, we’re off with our third release of the year, the Shanghai release…

This release owes its name to Delhi, the capital of India. The city’s name is often used interchangeably with New Delhi, which is actually…

New year, new Knack.In the past all our releases were named after famous software engineers that make what we do possible. This year we…

Charles Babbage was a computing pioneer who designed the first known computing engine, the Babbage Engine, in the early-to-mid 1800’s. Like…

Richard Stallman is an American software engineer who helped to launch the GNU project in 1983. Stallman is known as one of the free…

John Carmack is a computer programmer and video game developer. He co-founded the game company id Software which is known for games like…

Vinton Cerf was a computer scientist known as the “founder of the internet” along with Robert Kahn. We started on some tasks that should be…

Dennis Ritchie was a computer scientist who created the Unix operating system and the B programming language with the help of Ken Thompson…

Today we’re launching our Engelbart release, a tribute to one of my personal heroes, Douglas Engelbart, and it’s a large one!Introducing…

Today we shipped our Frances Allen release in honor of the recently late pioneer computer scientist and researcher Frances Elizabeth Allen…

Today we’ve shipped our Liskov release, very proud of this one as our team has been hard at work on new features. ClassroomWe’ve fixed a bug…

Ken Thompson is a pioneer of computer science best known for creating the original Unix operating system.New Default LocationDue to COVID 1…

James Gosling is a software engineer best known for his work on the Java programming language and is credited as its inventor. We decided to…

Welcome to a new tradition here at Knack, a changelog that documents the changes made to our applications on each release. This new…

User Validation with ZeroBounceKnack has undergone some pretty astonishing changes in the last few years. Our team has grown, our problems…

For the past three months, I have had the pleasure of interning at Knack and as the summer is winding down, I can’t help but reflect on how…

TL;DRYou will trade your inconveniences with polyrepos for tooling around your monorepo CI/CD pipeline.We recently made the transition to a…

This summer I had the extremely rewarding experience of being a data science intern at Knack. I got first hand experience learning about…

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