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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
- Stories
- Ruby
- Web
Why should I avoid regular expressions?

Regular expressions are wondrous, but they’re ill-suited for many tasks; parsers are often more reliable.
Summer ☀️
December 13, 2024
- Regex
- Ruby
- Security
- Web
Run smarter design Sprints with AI: Meet the Product Design Sprint Assistant

Learn how to run efficient and creative design sprints with the Product Design Sprint Assistant. From problem framing to testing, this AI-powered tool helps streamline your process, track assumptions, and keep your team aligned every step of the way.
Kevin Kwon
December 12, 2024
- Design Sprint
- Artificial Intelligence
Turbo morphing woes

Morphing is cool, but it can break your JavaScript. Here are some of the problems of using it and how to work around them.
Matheus Richard
December 11, 2024
- Hotwire
- Rails
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