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Surf's Up San Diego 2023 - find thoughtbot at these events!

Over the next few months we plan on attending a few incredible events in San Diego we wanted to share and hopefully see you all at.

Victoria Guido
October 12, 2023
Running old Ruby versions on Apple Silicon by fully emulating x86-64

I’ve been upgrading an old Rails 3.2 app and Ruby 2.0 doesn’t work on Apple Silicon. I solved it with full virtualization of x86-64.
Chad Pytel
October 4, 2023
- Ruby
- Development
“I have a bad English accent”

You can hear my home country from my first sentence. And so what?
Rémy Hannequin
October 3, 2023
Changing Maintainers for Elixir projects

Announcing the change in maintainership for our open source Elixir libraries from thoughtbot to the Beam Community.
Brian Tenggren
October 2, 2023
- Elixir
Updates from thoughtbot Startup Incubator: AvidFirst

An overview of Weeks 5-6 of the thoughtbot Incubator.
Vendela Colavecchio
September 26, 2023
- Incubator
- Product Strategy
Multi-thread Backtrace for Silently Hanging Tests

Tests hanging with no feedback on how to solve the problem? Try this!
Aji Slater
September 20, 2023
- RSpec
- Minitest
- Debugging
This Week in Open Source (September 14, 2023)

Recent thoughtbot open source updates (September 14, 2023).
Sara Jackson
September 16, 2023
Mining Gold in Digital Conversations

How I used artificial intelligence and async programming to transform interesting conversations into blog posts.
Matheus Richard
September 12, 2023
Asking the Right Questions After a Demo

Product demos are crucial in development. They offer insight into team progress and align stakeholder expectations. Yet, we sometimes need more than showcasing the product. Vital to success is asking stakeholders some practical questions.
Rob Whittaker
September 6, 2023
factory_bot 6.3.0

factory_bot 6.3.0 is out, with Ruby 3.2 support, better docs, and more hooks.
Mike Burns
September 5, 2023
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