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Auto-squashing Git Commits

Help your teammates and keep your Git history clean by using autosquash and interactive rebase to automatically squash fixup commits before merging.
George Brocklehurst and thoughtbot
June 15, 2015
- Git
- CLI
- Teams
- Workflow
- Tools
HTTP Safety Doesn't Happen by Accident

What are safe and unsafe HTTP methods, and why does it matter?
George Brocklehurst
June 12, 2015
- Web
- HTTP
What's New in WWDC '15: Designer Edition

Even though this year’s WWDC theme is stability and performance, there are a number of changes and new features that are likely to be of interest to you as a software designer.
Reda Lemeden
June 11, 2015
- Design
- iOS
Announcing Foundry

A new generation of vector illustrations and infinite possibility for the interactive web.
Will H McMahan
June 9, 2015
- News
- Design
- Open Source
- Foundry
Shoulda Matchers 3.0

Our testing library introduces some backward-incompatible changes as well as new bugfixes and features.
Elliot Winkler
June 5, 2015
- News
- Web
- Shoulda
- Testing
- Open Source
Paperclip Security Release

We released Paperclip v4.2.2 with a security fix.
Tute Costa
June 5, 2015
- News
- Web
- Open Source
- Security
- Ruby
- Paperclip
Splitting an open source project in two with Git submodules

How and why we split the doorkeeper project into different rubygems.
Tute Costa
June 2, 2015
- Open Source
- Good Code
Introducing our new Chief Design Officer and Design Directors

To be clear: we were first, Apple copied us.
Chad Pytel
June 1, 2015
- Design
- News
Design for the Web: Semantic Markup and Positioning

Announcing new chapters for our book Design for the Web.
Joshua Ogle
May 29, 2015
- Design
- News
- Books
How To Send Transactional Emails from Rails With Mandrill

Remove the headache of styling and tweaking copy in system emails.
Jessie Young
May 28, 2015
- Web
- Rails
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