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5 easy, actionable tips for software development in healthcare

Big-picture thinking is great, but sometimes you just want tactics you can use today. Here are five quick tips from our recent healthcare security panel, covering everything from handling vendor outages to building your own AI-powered security scanner.
Michelle Taute
September 10, 2026
- Health Tech
- AI
- Compliance
- Development
Announcing importmap-update: automated dependency updates for importmap-rails

Dependabot keeps your gems current, but it doesn’t know about the JavaScript packages pinned in your Rails importmap. We’re releasing a GitHub Action that opens pull requests for the ones that are outdated or vulnerable.
Neil Carvalho
September 9, 2026
When to vibe code an app and when to hire someone

Vibe coding can be a great way to prototype an app, but when should you bring in professional developers? Here’s how to decide.
Ran Craycraft
September 8, 2026
Why leaders have to know about PMS 🩸

It’s time that every person holding a management position learn about premenstrual syndrome, PMS.
Svenja Schäfer
September 7, 2026
- Leadership
- People Management
Is AI ruining my brain?

Has using AI at work made me worse at other things in my life?
Sally Hall
September 4, 2026
- AI
- Continuous Improvement
Tech Leaders Meetup is coming to Edinburgh

thoughtbot’s Tech Leaders Meetup is coming to Edinburgh on October 21, 2026.
Chad Pytel and Maria Filimonova
September 3, 2026
- Meetup
- Events
- Uk
- Leadership
Designers already think in React

A senior designer’s diary on picking up React Native. This entry starts with an argument about padding and ends up in the React docs, where three of the five steps in “Thinking in React” described work I already do. Variants are props. The layers panel is a hierarchy. The gap is that a Figma file shows every state at once, and code has to pick one.
Moses Amama
September 2, 2026
Join us for our Tech Leader Meetups in London this autumn

Join thoughtbot and engineering, product, and technology leaders in London for informal evenings of networking.
Chad Pytel and Maria Filimonova
September 1, 2026
- Meetup
- Events
- Leadership
- News
GPT and Claude go to heraldry school

I photographed a mystery coat of arms on vacation and asked a handful of AI models to identify it. Their reasoning traces show the difference between a model that backtracks and one that doubles down.
Joël Quenneville
August 26, 2026
- Llm
- Claude
- Experiments
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI
- Fun
Inserting State Transitions in Postgres

An append-only status model gives you full history, but concurrent transitions can produce contradictory records. Here’s how to prevent that.
Thiago Araújo Silva
August 24, 2026
- Databases
- PostgreSQL
- SQL
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