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Ten Years of the Giant Robots Blog

Today marks 10 years of writing, editing, and publishing this blog, Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots. Here’s a few things we did along the way to improve our happiness and the quality of the content.
Dan Croak, Joël Quenneville & Gabe Berke-Williams
November 6, 2015
- Analytics
- Automation
- Middleman
- Productivity
- Web
One Year Inside The Bike Shed

The Bike Shed turns one year old this month. Let’s look at the evolution and future of the show.
Derek Prior
November 5, 2015
- Web
- Podcast
- News
A Client Project, Two Years Later

In 2013, we worked with T1D Exchange to develop a community platform. Two years later, we catch up with their in-house developer.
Derek Prior
November 4, 2015
- Web
- Ruby
Announcing Administrate

A Rails engine that helps you put together a super-flexible admin dashboard.
Grayson Wright
November 3, 2015
- News
- Open Source
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
Naming Colors

The why and how of naming the colors you use in your design and development projects.
Reda Lemeden
November 3, 2015
- Color
- Design
- OS X
But I Don't Want to `bundle exec`

What if bundle exec increases your development time? Avoid it now to eliminate extra mental effort.
Bosun Olanrewaju
November 2, 2015
- Ruby
- Rake
ExMachina for Elixir: Factories with a Functional Twist

Announcing a new factory library for Elixir.
Josh Steiner and Paul Smith
November 2, 2015
- Elixir
- Testing
- Web
Basic CSS Selector Syntax Explained Using Cats

CSS can be tricky. Learn some basic selector syntax with cats!
Mike Borsare
October 26, 2015
- Fun
- CSS
- Design
- Web
- Frontend
- Back To Basics
Building Learning into our Process with Prototypes

The value in prototyping isn’t in the mockups that we produce. It’s in the learning that the team gets after they test the prototype with potential users.
Kyle Fiedler
October 19, 2015
- Design
- Prototyping
Embedding Elixir Structs in Ecto Models

Store semi-structured data inside a Postgres table without sacrificing expressiveness.
Josh Steiner
October 15, 2015
- Elixir
- Ecto
- Web
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