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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
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- Tip
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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
Managing background processes with homebrew in MacOS Ventura and beyond

Updates to the package manager makes launch agents even easier! Here’s how.
Aji Slater
August 14, 2023
- OS X
Tips for working across timezones

7 tips for working with teammates in different time zones.
Ferdia Kenny
August 11, 2023
- Productivity
- Team
- Remote
- Workflow
Structuring Conditionals in a Wizard

Branching early helps structure multi-step forms.
Joël Quenneville
August 8, 2023
- Good Code
- Elm
- Ruby
- Rails
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