thoughtbot

03/28/2025

At thoughtbot, transparency is our compass, guiding us through both calm and chaos, toward informed decision-making and collaboration.

03/27/2025

A learning, problem solving, and debugging technique.

03/26/2025

We went to ProductCon 2025. Here's what every tech leader needs to know about building products right now.

We went to ProductCon 2025. Here’s what every tech leader needs to know about building products right now.

03/25/2025

The presenter pattern is a handy design approach that sits between your views and models, helping you keep your code organized by handling view-specific logic in a clean and maintainable way.

Let's explore how to use it you your rails app.

The presenter pattern is a handy design approach that sits between your views and models, helping you keep your code organized by handling view-specific logic in a clean and maintainable way. Let’s explore how to use it you your rails app.

03/24/2025

We’ve decided to shift our focus to social platforms prioritizing inclusion and safety to foster productive conversations and community-building. While we won’t be posting on X and Meta anymore, you can still follow us here:
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Read the full announcement: https://thoughtbot.com/blog/thoughtbot-is-pausing-activity-on-x-and-meta

03/24/2025

The Marie Kondo for bits of HTML that spark joy but have no home.

03/21/2025

Season 15 of Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots is here!

03/21/2025

We're shifting our focus to more inclusive platforms that foster meaningful conversations. Learn how to stay connected with us through places like our blog, newsletter, Mastodon, Bluesky, LinkedIn, GitHub and RSS.

We’re shifting our focus to more inclusive platforms that foster meaningful conversations. Learn how to stay connected with us through places like our blog, newsletter, Mastodon, Bluesky, LinkedIn, GitHub and RSS.

03/20/2025

Fast food giants like McDonald’s and Wendy’s have recently announced AI-powered drive-through automation. In today's livestream, Chad will create his own voice AI app for a drive-through experience using Rails + OpenAI Realtime API. Register for today and future AI in Focus sessions: https://thoughtbot.com/events/ai-in-focus-2025

03/20/2025

We’ve organized our suggestions for using AI to accelerate your MVPs, to support you with product strategy, design, development, go-to-market, and post-launch optimization.

We’ve organized our suggestions for using AI to accelerate your MVPs, to support you with product strategy, design, development, go-to-market, and post-launch optimization.

03/19/2025

Satisfy the Typescript type-checker when doing dynamic object access and write safer code in the process.

03/18/2025

ActiveRecord query log tags is my pick for most underrated Rails config option that isn’t enabled by default. Here’s how to extend it beyond the default options, with a specific example of GraphQL.

ActiveRecord query log tags is my pick for most underrated Rails config option that isn’t enabled by default. Here’s how to extend it beyond the default options, with a specific example of GraphQL.