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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
Claude Skill incoming! Generating Postman collections with AI

When speed matters more than perfection, API documentation can quickly become a bottleneck. In this post, I share how we used thoughtbot’s Claude Skill to generate Postman collections directly from a Rails codebase.
Sami Birnbaum
March 9, 2026
- Artificial Intelligence
- Rails
- Claude
- AI
- Development
- API
Your chat bot needs a better rate limit strategy

Don’t let one ambitious user trigger a denial of service.
Steve Polito
March 2, 2026
- Rails
- Web
- Development
- Artificial Intelligence
- Llm
- Chat Bot
props_template 1.0: A high performance, more opinionated jbuilder replacement

props_template 1.0: A high performance, more opinionated jbuilder replacement
Johny Ho
February 13, 2026
- Rails
- Performance
- Development
- Ruby
A JavaScript developer's guide to Rails: ActiveRecord Fundamentals

Learn how Rails ActiveRecord differs from JavaScript ORMs and why the database-first approach eliminates boilerplate.
Will Larry
February 4, 2026
- Web
- Best Practices
- Ruby
- Rails
- JavaScript
- Development
A JavaScript developer's guide to Rails: What does Composition Over Inheritance mean?

Rails framework code is full of inheritance magic, but your application code doesn’t have to be. Learn how composition makes dependencies explicit, testing easier, and debugging a breeze—using patterns you already know from JavaScript.
Will Larry
January 28, 2026
- Web
- Best Practices
- Ruby
- Rails
- JavaScript
- Development
A JavaScript developer's guide to Rails: Where Does Everything Come From?

Discover where Rails methods come from and solve the biggest confusion JavaScript developers face when learning Rails.
Will Larry
January 21, 2026
- Web
- Best Practices
- Ruby
- Rails
- JavaScript
- Development
- Learning
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