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  1. FOSS Like A Boss

    It’s possible you’ve seen the abbreviation while looking for a note-taking app or for alternatives to Google Maps. But what is it?

    EJ Mitchell
    October 21, 2021
    • Open Source
    • How To
    • Overview
  2. Deprecating static attributes in factory_bot 4.11

    Static attributes have been the source of much confusion over the years. Their deprecation will come with a rubocop-rspec Cop to automatically replace with dynamic attributes.

    Daniel Colson
    August 16, 2018
    • Factory Bot
    • Open Source
    • Testing
    • Ruby
  3. How to make a Ghost theme

    Get started creating your first Ghost theme with gulp, sass, and autoprefixer.

    Will H McMahan
    December 13, 2017
    • Open Source
    • Ghost
    • Gulp
    • Sass
  4. Opensourcing 'Write Yourself A Roguelike'

    Our book on Ruby roguelike development is going opensource.

    Bruno Antunes
    November 27, 2017
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  5. Nesting grids with Neat 2

    Use Neat 2 to create dyamic nested layouts for your site or app.

    Will H McMahan
    August 8, 2017
    • Neat
    • Bourbon
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    • Sass
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  6. Liftoff Spinoff

    We want to see Liftoff flourish, so we’re setting it free.

    Gordon Fontenot
    April 24, 2017
    • iOS
    • Open Source
  7. Getting started with Neat 2.0, a lightweight and flexible Sass grid

    If you like Sass, Neat 2.0 brings some awesome features that will make creating semantic websites and apps faster and easier. – A lightweight and flexible Sass grid from the folks at thoughtbot.

    Will H McMahan
    March 27, 2017
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    • Sass
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  8. Neat 2.0 Building the future of floated Sass grids

    Understanding different types of existing float grid systems, finding their strengths/weaknesses, and discovering something better.

    Will H McMahan
    February 22, 2017
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    • Bourbon
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  9. Android Interpolators: A Visual Guide

    An app for visualizing Android’s various Interpolators.

    Amanda Hill
    February 16, 2017
    • Android
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  10. Investment Time

    Since 2010, we have dedicated Friday every week to “investment time”, unstructured self-directed time undedicated to client work. Here’s how it works and what we’ve learned.

    Ian Zabel and Dan Croak
    February 10, 2017
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