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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 We’re releasing a GitHub Action that opens pull requests for the ones that are outdated or vulnerable.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
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
How I Built a Chrome Extension Wrapper (and Everything That Tried to Stop Me)

Sharing my experience building a Chrome extension wrapper around a Rails app: the hard-won expertise, the rabbit holes, and everything I’d do differently.
Valeria Graffeo
June 9, 2026
Enforcing Your Ruby Style Guide on AI-Generated Code

A Rails-flavored guide to wrapping Claude Code in the checks, conventions, and feedback loops that make agent output more trustworthy.
Daniel Garcia
June 8, 2026
The Four Signals of AI Observability

Treat your AI feature like a software you can watch, not a model you hope works.
Matheus Sales
June 1, 2026
- AI
- Llm
- Observability
- Development
Biometrics authentication for your mobile app

Practical approaches to add biometrics authentication to a mobile app.
Rakesh Arunachalam
May 25, 2026
- React Native
- Mobile
- iOS
- Android
- Authentication
- Security
- Development
Reviewing Dependabot PRs is boring. Let Claude do it for you.

A Claude skill to do the boring stuff for us.
Jose Blanco
April 30, 2026
- Artificial Intelligence
- Rails
- Review
- Claude
- AI
- Development
- Skills
- Dependabot
AI in Focus: A new Claude Skill for Rails code audits

Learn what happened when Chad installed the open source rails-audit-thoughtbot Claude skill, ran it on thoughtbot’s decade-old internal Hub app, and walked through hits, misses, and how we’d tighten the skill over time.
Chad Pytel and Kate Young
April 13, 2026
Meet Duck Typer: your new duck typing friend

Keep the beauty of duck typing with no annotations while still catching missing methods, mismatched signatures, and accidental drift across classes.
Thiago Araújo Silva
March 23, 2026
- RSpec
- Minitest
- Testing
- Ruby
- OOP
- Development
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