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Liftoff Spinoff

We want to see Liftoff flourish, so we’re setting it free.
Gordon Fontenot
April 24, 2017
- iOS
- Open Source
The Bike Shirt

If you’re attending RailsConf, and are a fan of The Bike Shed, then do we have a shirt for you!
Thom Obarski
April 14, 2017
- News
- Podcast
- Swag
Automatically Collapse Generated Files in GitHub Diffs

Large, generated source code files can be a pain to deal with in diffs, but we have the tools to combat them.
Chris Thorn
April 11, 2017
- Unity
- VR
- 3D
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
Positioning elements on the web with CSS

A guide on how to position an element in CSS is sometimes really a choice about what side effects are most acceptable.
Joshua Ogle, Eric Bailey & Elaina Natario
April 4, 2017
- Design
- CSS
Canimal: How we over engineered drinking La Croix

Who doesn’t love La Croix? No one. We at thoughtbot agree and consume our fair share, but who consumes the most? Find out how we over engineered drinking La Croix to discover our top consumer.
Tony DiPasquale
April 3, 2017
- La Croix
- Arduino
- IOT
- Hardware
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
Tell Me When It Closes

Introducing our new service - get notified when something closes on GitHub without getting lost in noisy discussions.
Chris Toomey
March 28, 2017
- News
- Git
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