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Turning experience into growth

You work a full time job shipping features. Use active learning to turn that experience into technical and professional growth.
Joël Quenneville
January 27, 2025
- Learning
- Development
Unlock the value of tests in understanding your codebase

Tests provide value beyond verifying behavior and catching bugs. Reading, writing, and interacting with tests empower developers to observe – and therefore gain knowledge about – their complex codebase.
Stephanie Minn
November 7, 2024
- Testing
- Learning
How to train senior developers in Ruby on Rails

Have a team of senior developers, skilled in another tech stack, that need to ramp up with Ruby on Rails? Check out this post to help your team get there.
Stefanni Brasil
September 13, 2024
- Ruby
- Rails
- Learning
- Mentoring
Upgrading to Rails 7: Moving away from Webpacker

Webpacker was retired for Rails 7. Let’s explore some options for replacing it when making an upgrade.
Marina Joranhezon
April 12, 2023
- Rails Upgrade
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
- JavaScript
- Learning
Pairing is Caring

Some thoughts about pair programming and what an ideal pairing session looks like to me.
Valeria Graffeo
March 16, 2023
Moving Beyond, Not Getting Over, Imposter Syndrome

Let’s move away from individual responsibility, and towards collective and systemic accountability.
Stephanie Minn
November 2, 2022
- DEI
- Inclusion
- Culture
- Learning
- Teams
Design Bites—How to videos

Introducing a collection of quick Design learning videos by thoughtbot Designers.
Liz Dombroski
August 19, 2022
Interviewing like it's a classroom. In a good way.

Observing some aspects that job interviews and learning and teaching a foreign language have in common, in communication style in a broad way.
Valeria Graffeo
August 15, 2022
What my father taught me about software development

My father is a construction man. What could he teach me about being a software engineer? Well, quite a lot.
Matheus Richard
July 5, 2022
- Learning
Swag for your thoughts! (Survey for our community)

We would love to hear from our community what types of resources and events they enjoy, and if there is anything else thoughtbot can do to support your goals. In this blog we share a brief survery.
Diana Bald
June 28, 2022
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