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We Don’t Always Know What’s Better for Us

We self-selected open offices because they felt better. How do we ensure we’re making good long term choices and not just choosing what feels good now?
Chad Pytel
October 5, 2018
- Playbook
Building a Startup is Hard, Let's Make it Easier

Purpose-built is a new resource center to bring expert advice to founders, no matter their level of technical expertise.
Thom Obarski
September 18, 2018
- Business
- Community
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The Icebox is where stories go to die

Get rid of your Icebox. Reduce your overhead, clarify your roadmap, and make it easier to estimate timelines.
Chad Pytel
September 17, 2018
- Playbook
Write good commit messages by blaming others

To write good commit messages, you must read commit messages. And to read commit messages, you must use git blame effectively.
German Velasco
September 3, 2018
- Git
- Vim
- DevTools
- Tools
- Productivity
The Real Story Behind Story Points

I estimate a 13.
Stephanie Viccari and Matt Sumner
August 27, 2018
- Process
- Business
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
Chess and Recursion: Part 1

It turns out solving chess moves with recursion and pattern matching is a lot of fun!
Dan Barber
August 10, 2018
- Code
- Good Code
- Elixir
- Phoenix
- Recursion
Recommending blog posts with machine learning

How we recommend similar posts with an LDA topic model.
George Brocklehurst
July 30, 2018
Examining performance differences between Native, Flutter, and React Native mobile development: Take two.

Flutter proves itself to be a more performant option than previously realized.
Alex Sullivan
July 16, 2018
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?

Identify unnecessary rendering and improve your app’s performance.
Stephen Lindberg
July 10, 2018
- CSS
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