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Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

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  1. How a £20 mirror solved a £35,000 engineering problem (and why you, a Product Founder, CTO or Head of R&D should care)

    Spoiler, the product wasn’t the problem. It was the customer experience. This is the mindset shift that will save you money, and keep your revenue recurring.

    Bethan Ashley
    December 19, 2025
    • Product Management
    • UX Design
    • User Experience
  2. How fast can you go?

    Speeding up takes just one word.

    Richard Newman
    December 17, 2025
    • Process
    • Economics
    • Technical Debt
    • Velocity
  3. The Arrange/Act/Assert pattern

    Organizing tests for readability.

    Justin Toniazzo
    December 16, 2025
    • Testing
    • Development
    • Ruby
    • Rails
  4. Testing is software engineering

    Skimping on tests doesn’t speed you up; it just leaves you flying blind.

    Justin Toniazzo
    December 15, 2025
    • Testing
    • Development
  5. How to review AI generated PRs

    Tips from an AI skeptic for working with a team which uses AI a lot.

    Justin Toniazzo
    December 12, 2025
    • Artificial Intelligence
  6. Giant Robots Podcast Ep 598: Animals and AI Accounting with Sam Landsberg

    Sami talks with Sam Landsberg, head of sales at Light, about the wide world of fintech and how they’re working to simplify accounting software for businesses big and small.

    Sami Birnbaum
    December 11, 2025
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  7. Turn Any Idea Into a Validated MVP

    A step-by-step path to validate your idea fast by defining the problem, testing assumptions, prototyping the critical flow, and shaping a focused MVP you can learn from.

    Moses Amama
    December 9, 2025
    • Product Management
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    • Usability Testing
    • MVP
  8. You cannot not lead

    Whether you’re aware of it or not, your actions and non-actions impact the people around you. Everything sends a message. Everything communicates. Everything is leading.

    Svenja Schäfer
    November 27, 2025
    • People Management
    • Leadership
  9. Querying encrypted data in Rails using Deterministic Encryption

    Encrypting data is easy — querying it isn’t. Rails’ deterministic encryption makes encrypted fields both searchable and secure.

    Trésor Bireke
    November 25, 2025
    • Ruby
    • Ruby On Rails
    • Security
  10. Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch

    A quiet but important milestone for Git.

    Justin Toniazzo
    November 24, 2025
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