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brew leaves

How to use Homebrew’s brew leaves command to find programs you can safely uninstall.
Gabe Berke-Williams
February 11, 2014
- OS X
How to Evaluate Your Rails JSON API for Performance Improvements

Before adding database indexes, eager loading, and caches, spend a few minutes at the whiteboard with your team to rethink the high-level requirements for your JSON API.
Laila Winner
February 10, 2014
- Web
- Performance
- Rails
Announcing gitsh

Announcing a new open source library, gitsh, for running Git in a dedicated shell.
George Brocklehurst
February 10, 2014
- News
- Git
- Open Source
rcm, an rc file manager

Announcing a new open source library, rcm, for managing dotfiles.
Mike Burns
February 6, 2014
- Unix
- Open Source
Back to Basics: HTTP Requests in Rails Apps

An in-depth look at HTTP requests and how Ajax works in Rails.
Britt Ballard
February 5, 2014
- Web
- Back To Basics
- HTTP
- Rails
Automatically Wait for AJAX with Capybara

How to use Capybara’s wait_for_ajax helper.
Gabe Berke-Williams
February 4, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
Opening an Austin Office

We are opening a thoughtbot office in Austin, Texas. Hire us for web and mobile design and development. Our typical stack is Ruby on Rails and iOS.
Britt Ballard
February 3, 2014
- News
- Austin
How to Edit an Existing Vim Macro

Don’t start over. Edit the register visually.
Rich Rines
January 31, 2014
- Vim
Replacing NERDTree with Ctrl-P

Using a fuzzy finder like Ctrl-P has improved my speed to find files over my previous method of a file drawer in Vim like NERDTree.
Lisa Sy
January 29, 2014
- Vim
ActiveRecord's where.not

Make clunky negation queries in ActiveRecord easier to read.
Gabe Berke-Williams
January 24, 2014
- Web
- Rails
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