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Speed up your Rack application with HTTP

You don’t need a sophisticated caching mechanism to improve your application’s performance. All you need is a basic understanding of the HTTP specification.
Steve Polito
August 31, 2023
- Rack
- Rack Tutorial
- Ruby
- Web
Announcing ESLint Configs for React and React Native

We recently released full-featured ESLint configurations for React and React Native!
Stephen Hanson
August 28, 2023
- React
- React Native
- JavaScript
- Mobile
This week in #dev (Aug 18, 2023)

Caching HTTP responses forever, a fix for when your terminal is acting weird, and more!
thoughtbot
August 28, 2023
- This Week In Dev
- Git
- Rails
- HTTP
- Terminal
- Communication
Treat yourself days

Be kind to yourself and do something special today.
Valeria Graffeo
August 23, 2023
A pragmatic guide to building a Rack application from scratch

Learn how to build a production ready Rack application without a framework like Rails or Sinatra.
Steve Polito
August 22, 2023
- Rack
- Rack Tutorial
- Ruby
- Web
Kicking off thoughtbot’s Summer 2023 incubator with AvidFirst

The team gets up to speed on everything Ashley’s already learned and done so far and identifies an early adopter market.
Jordyn Bonds
August 18, 2023
- Incubator
- Product Strategy
This Week in Open Source (August 14, 2023)

Recent thoughtbot open source updates (August 14, 2023).
Sara Jackson
August 18, 2023
Alerting everyone, everywhere, all at once

It’s time to regain control over your alerting chaos. We’re going to talk about alerting principles and practices that can help you achieve a well-organized, healthy, and efficient alerting system for your projects!
Clarissa Borges
August 17, 2023
- Observability
- Alerting
- Monitoring
- SRE
- DevOps
This week in #dev (Aug 4, 2023)

A guide on web security, DeMorgan Laws, force-pushing without losing your work, and more!
thoughtbot
August 16, 2023
- This Week In Dev
- Rails
- Ruby
- Git
- TIL
- Tip
- Security
- Performance
- Mathematics
Superglue: digging into the framework details

Superglue creator Johny Ho answers a beginner’s questions about the new React+Rails framework.
Johny Ho and Dave Iverson
August 15, 2023
- React
- Rails
- JavaScript
- Web
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