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You cannot not lead

Whether you’re aware of it or not, your actions and non-actions impact the people around you. Everything sends a message. Everything communicates. Everything is leading.
Svenja Schäfer
November 27, 2025
- People Management
- Leadership
Querying encrypted data in Rails using Deterministic Encryption

Encrypting data is easy — querying it isn’t. Rails’ deterministic encryption makes encrypted fields both searchable and secure.
Trésor Bireke
November 25, 2025
Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch

A quiet but important milestone for Git.
Justin Toniazzo
November 24, 2025
- Development
- Git
- News
We're a fully-remote company. Why host concurrent In-Person and Remote Summits?

We ran our in-person Amsterdam Summit and Remote Summit at the same time in October. A ton of effort. Culturally priceless.
Stephanie Kuroda
November 21, 2025
- Operations
- Remote
- Leadership
- Inclusion
- Values
- Culture
Giant Robots Podcast Ep 597: Say Yes with Nick Merwin

Chad talks with developer and guitarist Nick Merwin about the challenges of balancing his career in development with his life as a musician.
Chad Pytel
November 20, 2025
- Podcast
AI in Focus: Pair programming with AI

Trying to optimize your AI coding workflow? One size doesn’t fit all. During an AI pair programming session, we discovered some insights about control, context and trust that might help you sharpen your own process.
Chad Pytel, Clarissa Borges & Michelle Taute
November 20, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence
Presenting at tiny ruby on Friday, November 21, 2025!

Booleans and ractors on stage in Helsinki.
Louis Antonopoulos and Sarah Lima
November 19, 2025
- Ruby
- Conferences
How to use LLMs without driving your team mad

Three AI anti-patterns that consistently frustrate development teams, and how to avoid them.
Jimmy Thigpen
November 17, 2025
My Favorite Mac VoiceOver commands

The world needs more accessibility tip listicles. Here’s one about screen reader testing.
Dave Iverson
November 10, 2025
- Web
- Accessibility
- Voiceover
- Usability
How to design a join code system

Learn the ins and outs of building a game-based join code feature.
Steve Polito
November 10, 2025
- Web
- Development
- Design
- Rails
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