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  1. A Closer Look at Test Spies

    What benefits do test spies have compared to mocks in our isolated unit tests?

    Dan Croak
    March 19, 2015
    • Web
    • Testing
    • Ruby
  2. How to Set Up Your Company's Apprenticeship

    Here’s what we’ve learned running an apprenticeship program for designers and developers over the past four years.

    Chad Pytel and Dan Croak
    February 13, 2015
    • Playbook
    • Apprenticeship
  3. Hound Reviews SCSS for Style Violations

    Hound reviews Ruby, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, and SCSS code for style violations.

    Dan Croak
    February 8, 2015
    • News
    • Hound
    • Sass
    • Design
    • Web
  4. Multiple CI Services on a GitHub Pull Request

    Review your GitHub pull requests with multiple CI services such as TravisCI, Code Climate, and Hound.

    Dan Croak
    January 28, 2015
    • News
    • Hound
  5. North Star Metric

    It is difficult to prioritize product and growth work. Using one metric as your team’s North Star can help. How do you define, measure, and make decisions from it?

    Dan Croak and Galen Frechette
    December 25, 2014
    • Playbook
    • Growth
    • Analytics
  6. Hound Reviews CoffeeScript For Style Violations

    In addition to Ruby files, Hound can now review CoffeeScript code for style violations using CoffeeLint.

    Dan Croak
    September 17, 2014
    • News
    • Web
    • Hound
    • CoffeeScript
  7. Paid Private Repos for Hound

    Hound is now reviewing 7,000+ GitHub pull requests each week. We are now charging for private repos. Public repos are still free.

    Dan Croak
    August 19, 2014
    • News
    • Hound
  8. DNS to CDN to Origin

    Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) such as Amazon CloudFront and Fastly...

    Dan Croak
    August 8, 2014
    • Web
    • Performance
    • Ruby
    • DNS
  9. tmux Only For Long-Running Processes

    A minimal technique for using tmux to help achieve maximum focus.

    Dan Croak
    July 17, 2014
    • tmux
    • Vim
    • Unix
  10. Laptop Setup for an Awesome Development Environment

    Don’t manually setup your new laptop with a series of copy-and-pasted steps from some blog post. Leverage automation and the open source community to save time and get a more stable result.

    Dan Croak
    June 18, 2014
    • Web
    • Open Source
    • Ruby
    • Rails
    • Unix
    • OS X
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