Chad talks with Sarah Merlin of IndiMade about what goes into revitalising an e-commerce platform and how they’re staying true to their customers.
Experimenting with a locally running version of the DeepSeek R1 LLM model in a real Rails app using Ollama and ruby-openai.
Chad, Will and Sami discuss life outside of thoughtbot and the hobbies that occupy them in their down time.
Chad talks with Karen King, Founder of Gold Star Pro, about her drive to help small business owners reach their full potential.
We’re shifting our focus to more inclusive platforms that foster meaningful conversations. Learn how to stay connected with us through places like our blog, newsletter, Mastodon, Bluesky, LinkedIn, GitHub and RSS.
The Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots Podcast and The Bike Shed are now available on YouTube podcasts and YouTube Music.
We remain committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, not only as a moral imperative, but because having a diverse team with different experiences and perspectives doesn’t hinder productivity. It makes us more successful.
Sami Birnbaum joins our Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots podcast as a regular co-host alongside Will Larry and Chad Pytel.
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.