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Join us: Building Secure Healthcare Systems

Register for our July 30 panel on reducing risk through better architecture, AI governance, and developer workflows, featuring David Pace of Merck and Joël Quenneville and Clarissa Borges of thoughtbot.
Lindsey Christensen
July 17, 2026
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- Health Tech
Past and present thoughtbotters at LRUG this Monday

Come hear Ruby talks by Fritz Meissner and Ismael Celis at the London Ruby User Group meeting on Monday 13th July.
Fritz Meissner
July 10, 2026
- Community
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- London
- Meetup
- Ruby
Summer Special: We’re Taking London Tech Leaders Outdoors

This summer, we’re taking London Tech Leaders outdoors with a special series of relaxed meetup gatherings across some of London’s best outdoor venues.
Chad Pytel and Maria Filimonova
May 19, 2026
- Events
- Community
- London
- Meetup
Austin Tech Leaders is growing, thoughtfully (and we have the photos to prove it)

How we’re building a curated tech leadership community in Austin, from intimate meetups to a SXSW event, and why intention beats scale.
Lindsey Christensen
May 5, 2026
- Events
- Community
- Austin
Attending and speaking at Haggis Ruby

thoughtbot is heading to Haggis Ruby in Glasgow on April 23-24. Come find us.
Rob Whittaker
March 31, 2026
- Events
- Ruby
Our first Tech Leaders Meetup in Bristol, UK

Our Tech Leader UK Tour is coming to Bristol on March 19th. This is your invite to connect in person with the thoughtbot team and other product leaders in South West England.
Chad Pytel and Maria Filimonova
February 18, 2026
- News
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- London
Our UK Tech Leader Tour

In addition to our regular tech leader event in London, we’re partnering with local tech leaders to bring the event to Manchester, Bristol, Brighton, and Edinburgh this year.
Chad Pytel, Rob Whittaker & Maria Filimonova
January 16, 2026
- Events
- London
Extending factory_bot with custom strategies at thoughtbot Open Summit

Learn how to make factory_bot work for your unique product needs. At thoughtbot Open Summit, Neil Carvalho and José Blanco will lead a live, hands-on session on building custom strategies. Learn how teams can extend and adapt factory_bot for complex applications.
Lindsey Christensen
October 28, 2025
- Factory Bot
- Rails
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Rethinking CSS with Roux - debuting at thoughtbot Open Summit

Remember Bourbon and Bitters? Meet their modern successor: Roux. Elaina Natario talks about her new CSS boilerplate that rethinks how teams structure and scale their styles without needing to reach for frameworks like Tailwind.
Lindsey Christensen
October 27, 2025
- CSS
- Open Source
- Events
- News
Bridging the gap between Rails and React with Superglue at thoughtbot Open Summit

Superglue creator Johny Ho will showcase how Superglue makes building interactive Rails apps with React feel as seamless as working with forms, routes, and partials. Get a first look at Superglue 2.0, learn how it works under the hood, and see why it’s redefining full-stack development the Rails way.
Lindsey Christensen
October 24, 2025
- Superglue
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