We’ve reimplemented our blog’s related article recommendation system using modern artificial intelligence techniques. The system is cheaper, more performant, and produces better results.
Don’t over-engineer. While there are some AI tasks that are better suited for Python, using a Ruby gem and some API calls will do the job for most cases.
We’ve created a guide to help ensure our values are applied to the Artificial Intelligence solutions we build.
We’ve updated Ruby Science, the reference for creating fantastic Rails applications, and it’s now available on the web in addition to EPUB and PDF.
I’ve been upgrading an old Rails 3.2 app and Ruby 2.0 doesn’t work on Apple Silicon. I solved it with full virtualization of x86-64.
We have a lot of internal and external documentation about how we do things at thoughtbot. I explored how we could make ChatGPT able to answer people’s questions using this documentation. This articles shows how to do it and the results.
In celebration of our 20th Anniversary, we’ve selected 20 amazing articles from our blog and compiled them into a beautiful 78-page PDF book.
Today is thoughtbot’s 20th Anniversary! Thank you for everything, and we hope you’ll celebrate with us.
We’ve just pushed a new release of our macOS setup script, Laptop, which adds official support for macOS Ventura and fixes a few other issues.
We’ve been named one of Quartz’s Best Companies for Remote Workers! Here are some highlights of our path to fully remote and things we’ve learned along the way.