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Upcase has retired, but the learning continues

We’ve retired Upcase, but our commitment to sharing what we learn hasn’t changed. Here’s where you can continue learning with us through articles, videos, podcasts, and more.
Moses Amama
July 15, 2026
- Upcase
- Ruby On Rails
The Bike Shed Ep 506: The Muppet Software Team

This week’s episode is a radical one, let’s Muppet-cast a software development team!
Sally Hall and Aji Slater
July 14, 2026
- Podcast
Migrating to native stack navigation, with a surprise from iOS 26

We moved our React Native app from the JavaScript stack to the native stack and suddenly inherited Liquid Glass, and a clipped logo.
Jose Blanco
July 13, 2026
Past and present thoughtbotters at LRUG this Monday

Come hear Ruby talks by Fritz Meissner and Ismael Celis at the London Ruby User Group meeting on Monday 13th July.
Fritz Meissner
July 10, 2026
- Community
- Events
- London
- Meetup
- Ruby
The Bike Shed Ep 505: What is a “principal” or “staff” engineer?

Sally and Joël join forces to discuss the different ways to interpret the role of a ‘principle’ or ‘staff’ engineer, and the handwaving around what those titles mean in terms of the gradation.
Joël Quenneville and Sally Hall
July 7, 2026
- Podcast
Your vibe coded website is going to get you fined

Vibe coding might get you 80% of the way there. But the other 20% is what really counts. It’s what makes you stand out from AI slop and helps you avoid huge accessibility fines. thoughtbot designers can give you that extra 20%.
Ferdia Kenny
July 3, 2026
Roux’s New Component Library

We’ve added UI components to Roux!
Elaina Natario and Dave Iverson
July 1, 2026
- HTML
- CSS
- News
- Open Source
Superglue 2.0 beta: React ❤️ Rails even more

The Rails way of building Rails and React apps just got easier.
Johny Ho
June 29, 2026
- Ruby
- Web
- Ruby On Rails
- React
- Redux
- JavaScript
- Hotwire
- Stimulus
- Turbo
- Superglue
Why we're choosing stewardship over an exit

The most common path for companies like ours is to be sold. We’re taking a different path. The THOUGHTBOT PURPOSE TRUST is designed to preserve our values and mission.
Chad Pytel
June 25, 2026
- News
The Bike Shed Ep 503: Seeing the Graph for the Trees

Aji and Joël discuss graph and tree structures, their connection to the emergent properties, attributes and qualities found from a largely connected group of data.
Joël Quenneville and Aji Slater
June 23, 2026
- Podcast
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