Giant Robots: thoughtbot Blog

- All Topics
- Design
- Development
- Product
- More topics
Swift Imports

How to be a Swift importer (and possibly exporter).
Patrick Montalto
October 11, 2017
- Swift
- iOS
Join thoughtbot as our Marketing Director

We are looking for a Marketing Director to join our team in either Boston or New York City to lead our marketing efforts.
Chad Pytel
October 10, 2017
- News
Elm and Rails Sitting in a Tree

I-N-T-E-G-R-A-T-I-N-G: Webpacker makes using Elm in your Rails app pain-free.
Tom Wey and Josh Clayton
October 9, 2017
- Rails
- Elm
Redux for Chrome Extensions

An intro to functional state management for your Chrome extensions using Redux.
Bruno Antunes
October 2, 2017
- Web
- JavaScript
- Chrome
- Redux
Named Entity Recognition

Extracting meaning from text with machine learning.
George Brocklehurst
September 28, 2017
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing
Android Canvas' drawArc Method: A Visual Guide

A visual aid for the different method parameters in Canvas.drawArc.
Amanda Hill
September 27, 2017
- Android
- Design
Access Ruby Hash Values with Fallbacks for Missing Data

Find out different ways to access hash values in Ruby and save the dinosaurs at the same time.
Rob Whittaker
September 25, 2017
- Code
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
Debugging Why Your Specs Have Slowed Down

Your test suite used to be lightning fast but now it’s starting to feel a bit sluggish. Before adding CI parallelization, let’s see if there’s any clutter to remove.
Mike Wenger
September 22, 2017
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
- Factory Girl
- Web
- Factory Bot
A Simple Approach to Thread-Safe Networking in iOS Apps

Concurrent programming is hard! But by taking advantage of a lesser-known aspect of its design, we can avoid some common pitfalls.
Adam Sharp
September 21, 2017
- Concurrency
- Parallelism
- URLSession
- Networking
- Swift
- iOS
Booleans and Enums

Refactor common Boolean smells using enums (union types).
Joël Quenneville
September 20, 2017
- Web
- Elm
- Good Code
Sign up to receive a weekly recap from thoughtbot

Your email address

Looking for even more ways to stay connected?

Check out our feeds

Sign up to receive a weekly recap from thoughtbot