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Our macOS setup script, Laptop, adds official support for Ventura

We’ve just pushed a new release of our macOS setup script, Laptop, which adds official support for macOS Ventura and fixes a few other issues.
Chad Pytel
December 2, 2022
- News
- Laptop
DEI: Speaking Up About Our Values

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is part of thoughtbot’s core values. As we encounter critiques of these principles, it is important to explain why we do what we do and why it sets us apart from toxic tech culture that still lives true today.
Christopher Kuttruff, Mina Slater & Sally Hall
December 1, 2022
- DEI
- Culture
- Ethics
- Hiring
- Process
2023 Consumer Tech Trends

To best support thoughtbot’s teams and our clients, we spend the end of the year analyzing the patterns we’ve experienced and the trends on the horizon for the industries we support most frequently.
Kelly Gebo
November 29, 2022
Takeaways from our Research & Strategic Insights Ask Me Anything webinar

Learn from some of our product strategy leaders about validation and product/market fit and how they can make or break success with your product.
Dawn Delatte and Jordyn Bonds
November 23, 2022
What happens when you stop maintaining your Rails application?

Here are the risks and common scenarios we see when a team doesn’t have a plan for ongoing maintenance for their Rails application. We also share how we support clients in these situations with our new, flexible, Rails Maintenance offering.
Jeanine Soterwood
November 21, 2022
- Good Code
- TDD
- Testing
- Rails
- Web
- Technical Debt
Building an Alexa Skill in Arabic with Ruby

More detail on how the thoughtbot team built one of the first Alexa skills in Arabic, and what we learned about using Ruby on Rails to support the development of Alexa Skills in the process.
Fritz Meissner, Sami Birnbaum & Kelly Gebo
November 18, 2022
Site-wide configuration with Administrate

Adding site-wide configuration with a Rails model can be quite easy to do with Administrate.
Nick Charlton
November 17, 2022
- Rails
- Administrate
Data Modeling Resources in Elm

Links to some of the best Elm data modeling resources around the web.
Joël Quenneville
November 15, 2022
- Elm
- Good Code
Automate manual deployments with Git and binstubs

Your team’s manual deployment process doesn’t have to be so manual. Here’s how we automated our team’s deployment process with a few lines of bash and basic Git knowledge.
Steve Polito
November 14, 2022
- Git
- Web
- Shell
- Automation
thoughtbot approved as UK Crown Commercial G-Cloud 13 supplier

UK public sector organisations can find and contract thoughtbot cloud support services.
Kirsten Hurley
November 11, 2022
- DevOps
- SRE
- GCloud 13
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