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The mistake I didn't realise I was making when designing workshops

The hidden reason good products, meetings and workshops still fail: they depend on a single way of seeing, thinking and processing.
Bethan Ashley
June 17, 2026
The Bike Shed Ep 502: Apps That Make Our Work Go

Aji and Sally are back together again, this time to discuss the different apps they use to make their workflows and To Do lists easier and quicker to achieve.
Joël Quenneville and Sally Hall
June 16, 2026
- Podcast
AI crawlers are inflating your view counts

AI crawlers now make up most of your site’s traffic, and server-side analytics counts every one of them. Your view counts measure scrapers, not readers. Here is how to fix it.
Trésor Bireke
June 16, 2026
- AI
- Rails
- Analytics
Toast: the 2-minute test that reveals how you think about building products

Give a team one prompt. Watch them completely diverge. The differences reveal something most product teams never talk about.
Bethan Ashley
June 10, 2026
How I Built a Chrome Extension Wrapper (and Everything That Tried to Stop Me)

Sharing my experience building a Chrome extension wrapper around a Rails app: the hard-won expertise, the rabbit holes, and everything I’d do differently.
Valeria Graffeo
June 9, 2026
Enforcing Your Ruby Style Guide on AI-Generated Code

A Rails-flavored guide to wrapping Claude Code in the checks, conventions, and feedback loops that make agent output more trustworthy.
Daniel Garcia
June 8, 2026
Copy as Markdown: AI-friendly blog posts

Our blog posts can now be copied as Markdown, so you can hand them to your favourite AI without the HTML cruft. Click, paste, and happy contexting.
Jared Turner
June 3, 2026
- AI
- Markdown
The Bike Shed Ep 501: What makes for good technical writing?

Sally and Joël get technical as they lay out their thoughts on blog posts.
Joël Quenneville and Sally Hall
June 2, 2026
- Podcast
The Four Signals of AI Observability

Treat your AI feature like a software you can watch, not a model you hope works.
Matheus Sales
June 1, 2026
- AI
- Llm
- Observability
- Development
Can you really launch a tech business with a no-code app builder?

AI app builders promise to turn anyone into a founder overnight, but is the code actually production-ready? We look at the success stories, technical risks and a path forward.
Michelle Taute
May 29, 2026
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