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  1. Running Acceptance with Heroku Review Apps

    Generate staging environments automatically for each pull request.

    Tute Costa
    April 22, 2016
    • Heroku
    • Productivity
  2. Start Simple

    Ship faster by starting simple.

    Blake Williams
    March 21, 2016
    • Productivity
    • Web
  3. Ten Years of the Giant Robots Blog

    Today marks 10 years of writing, editing, and publishing this blog, Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots. Here’s a few things we did along the way to improve our happiness and the quality of the content.

    Dan Croak, Joël Quenneville & Gabe Berke-Williams
    November 6, 2015
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    • Web
  4. Why Does Style Matter?

    Working in a well-organized code base is like cooking in a clean kitchen.

    Matt Sumner
    February 12, 2015
    • Web
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  5. Why You Should Use a Mechanical Keyboard

    The right keyboard for the job might not always be the one that your computer came with.

    Justin Kenyon
    December 23, 2014
    • Hardware
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  6. Beginner's Mind

    We all want to be experts, but a fresh perspective can help an experienced mind learn new tricks.

    Ian C. Anderson
    October 27, 2014
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