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Can AI be used as an accessibility testing partner?

Explore how AI enhances accessibility testing, its limitations, and why collaboration with human expertise is key to inclusive solutions.
Moses Amama
January 10, 2025
Recorded sessions from thoughtbot Open Summit 2024

Relive thoughtbot’s open source hackathon with a recap and recordings of the live coding sessions and talks. Sessions span Administrate, Belt, FactoryBot, Langchain.rb and more.
Lindsey Christensen
January 9, 2025
thoughtbot is a certified Prismic partner

After using Prismic on our site, and recommending it to our clients, we are proud to announce our certification as a Prismic Partner. This blog talks about strengths we bring to complex Prismic sites, and the benefits their tool has provided our team.
Kelly Gebo
January 7, 2025
- Web
- Marketing
- Design
- Partner
Why UX is more important than UI

“I want to make it pop!”, but not at the expense of your customer experience. Here’s why.
Bethan Ashley
December 31, 2024
The digital nomad thoughtbottle

Work remotely and from multiple locations? Here’s my minimalist kit recommendations to travel light.
Bethan Ashley
December 30, 2024
Optimize your shell experience

Make your shell workflow as smooth as possible by creating helpers designed just for you.
Matheus Richard
December 20, 2024
- Shell
- Productivity
- Tip
What I learned about design by helping my grandfather send an email

The solution isn’t to just make the text bigger. We need to rethink how we approach product design as a whole.
Andrew Spencer
December 19, 2024
Zero-downtime with Rails credentials part II

Transitioning the codebase from using environment variables to Rails Credentials for Zero-Downtime Deploys.
Sami Birnbaum and Valeria Graffeo
December 18, 2024
Making typography decisions with AI as an assistant

Combine AI tools with design expertise to make better typography decisions faster. Use AI as an assistant to select, test and implement typefaces while reducing time spent on exploration.
Moses Amama
December 16, 2024
Testing SQL queries in a Ruby service

An epic journey of facing MSSQL and missing Rails.
Sally Hall
December 16, 2024
- SQL
- Testing
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- Ruby
- Web
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