Giant Robots: thoughtbot Blog

- All Topics
- Design
- Development
- Product
- More topics
We Ungendered Our Restrooms - And You Can Too!

How our NYC office ungendered our restrooms to better serve the needs of trans people who work in and visit our office.
Avielle Wolfe
August 15, 2016
- Trans
- LGBTQ
- Inclusivity
- Diversity
- News
The Complete Guide to Optimising Web Images

Optimising images for your website can be a bit of a black art, but it’s well worth doing as the bandwidth savings can be large. It will also make a big difference to the speed at which your site loads.
Dan Barber
August 10, 2016
- Web
- Design
- Images
Tab completion in GNU Readline

Learn how to use GNU Readline’s powerful tab completion features in your own applications.
George Brocklehurst
August 8, 2016
- gitsh
- Readline
- C
Announcing Domain Name Sanity

Learn to make domains and TLS certificates predictable and debuggable, while grasping their core concepts with plenty of examples.
Edward Loveall
August 5, 2016
- News
- DNS
- Books
Building and testing a Phoenix JSON API

Learn how to build a blazing fast Phoenix API. Updated for Phoenix 1.2.
Paul Smith
August 2, 2016
- Elixir
- Testing
- Phoenix
HyperLogLogs in Redis

Learn what a HyperLogLog is and how you can use it to count billions of unique things.
Calle Erlandsson
August 1, 2016
- Redis
- Web
- Ruby
Advanced Postgres Performance Tips

What do you do when indexes aren’t enough?
Caleb Hearth
July 29, 2016
- PostgreSQL
- Databases
- SQL
- Performance
Literate Vim

Vim commands are terse and arcane, but very expressive. See a complex command broken down by clause.
Caleb Hearth
July 28, 2016
- Vim
Reading a Postgres EXPLAIN ANALYZE Query Plan

Take a guided tour through a query plan for a “simple” SQL query.
Caleb Hearth
July 26, 2016
- PostgreSQL
- Databases
- SQL
- Performance
Fundamentals of Test-Driven Development, Now on Upcase

Learn how to use Test-Driven Development to write better software in our newest Upcase trail.
Chris Toomey and Geoff Harcourt
July 19, 2016
- News
- Testing
- Ruby
- Upcase
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