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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
Writing Semantic Markup

Writing semantic markup for the web.
Joshua Ogle
March 28, 2017
- Design
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
Extending Elm Native UI with JavaScript

How to add extra UI functionality to your Elm Native UI project.
Jon Yurek
March 27, 2017
- Code
- Elm
- JavaScript
- Mobile
Learning Vim in a Week

From the Boston Vim Meetup, Mike Coutermarsh shows how to get set up, and eventually productive, with Vim.
Thom Obarski
March 24, 2017
- Vim
- Boston
A View State Machine for Network Calls on Android

Using Kotlin’s sealed classes we can make a state machine for all UI-related to network calls.
Amanda Hill
March 23, 2017
- Android
- Kotlin
- Mobile
How to Build and Test Decision Tree UX

In which I make up a concept, define it and solve for it.
Amanda Hill
March 22, 2017
- Android
- Mobile
- Kotlin
On Markup and Layout

The relationship between semantic markup and layout.
Joshua Ogle
March 21, 2017
- Design
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