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Type-Driven Design, Test-Driven Design

TDD purism belongs to the world of dynamic typing.
Mike Burns
February 8, 2021
- Types
- Testing
- TDD
We're hiring remote developers!

Our new remote developer role, and how we’re working to make the hiring process inclusive.
George Brocklehurst
February 3, 2021
- Hiring
- Process
- Diversity
Scoping .or clauses with common joins

Extract common clauses when using Active Record’s .or method.
Eebs Kobeissi
February 1, 2021
- Active Record
- Rails
- Web
Useful utilities

A strict type system doesn’t mean inflexible. We can bend it to meet our needs with the utilities that ship with TypeScript.
Alejandro Dustet
February 1, 2021
An introduction to macOS Head Pointer

Did you know you could use a mouse without using your hands?
Eric Bailey
January 27, 2021
- Accessibility
- macOS
Functional Programming as Algebra

Let’s return to everyone’s “favorite” subject. 🙄
EJ Mitchell
January 26, 2021
- Functional Programming
- Mathematics
- Learning
- Web
- Elm
- Scala
Send your questions to The Bike Shed!

Ask Steph and Chris your burning questions!
Elaina Natario
January 25, 2021
- Podcast
- Community
Testing Objects with a Functional Mindset

Some ideas from functional programming can help us improve the unit tests for our object-oriented code.
Joël Quenneville
January 19, 2021
- Web
- Functional Programming
- Testing
- Good Code
- Ruby
Type systems and checking in Elixir and Ruby

Adding type checking to dynamically typed languages is possible, and awesome!
Hawley Brett
January 18, 2021
- Elixir
- Ruby
- Types
- Good Code
Server, They Wrote

A case of how to squeeze your server for every last 💧.
EJ Mitchell
January 15, 2021
- Ubuntu
- Optimization
- Server Management
- Debugging
- Web
- Learning
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