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Following the Path

A journey into requiring files via $PATH and $LOAD_PATH.
Joël Quenneville
April 10, 2017
- Web
- Ruby
- Unix
A React Rendering Misconception

In which we learn how often React renders components.
Chris Thorn
April 5, 2017
- React
- Performance
- Web
Decorating ActiveRecord

Avoid some tricky edge cases when decorating ActiveRecord models.
Joël Quenneville
March 31, 2017
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
Modeling a Paginated API as a Lazy Stream

Pagination of APIs is a performance optimization trick. As a consumer, you may want to model things with a lazy stream instead.
Joël Quenneville
March 29, 2017
- Web
- Ruby
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
- Design
- Open Source
- Web
- Sass
- Bourbon
- Neat
Testing Third Party Interactions

How to test integrations with a third-party API.
Joël Quenneville
March 15, 2017
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
ExMachina 2.0 - Cast Away

ExMachina 2.0 brings new features and functions for easier testing.
Josh Steiner
March 13, 2017
- Elixir
- Testing
- Web
Chain RSpec Matchers for Improved Test Readability

Improve test readability by leveraging RSpec’s matcher composition to make multiple assertions with a single matcher.
Josh Clayton
March 9, 2017
- Web
- RSpec
- Ruby
- Rails
- Testing
Spend Your Divergence Wisely

Complexity makes apps harder to use and harder to maintain. We can avoid that unnecessary complexity by starting with good defaults and from there making informed decisions about where to diverge from them.
Mason Fischer
March 2, 2017
- Good Code
- Techniques
- Web
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
- Neat
- Bourbon
- Design
- Sass
- Open Source
- Web
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