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New Online Workshop: How to Supercharge Your Rails App with a Code Audit

Learn thoughtbot’s approach and process around conducting code audits on Rails apps for our clients.
Josh Clayton
March 30, 2020
Going through changes with TypeScript

When we inevitably make changes to our codebase, any help is appreciated, and a type system can be your best friend.
Alejandro Dustet
March 30, 2020
- TypeScript
- Types
- Web
Combine + Diffable Data Source

Let’s explore two powerful native frameworks.
Abe Mangona
March 27, 2020
- iOS
- Swift
- Xcode
- Mobile
New online Q&A: Being human in the absence of humans

Join a panel of our experts as they answer your pre-submitted questions and share favorite tools, tips, and more for remote working in these challenging times.
Kyle Fiedler
March 26, 2020
- Remote
- Human
- Process
- Design
- Development
- Virtual Hugs
How to start processes with dynamic names in Elixir

Good practices for using Registry to name processes dynamically.
Justin Toniazzo
March 25, 2020
- Elixir
- OTP
- Web
Chromedriver/Chrome 80 cookie domain bug

Chrome 80 introduced tighter control around trusting TLS certificates, which unearthed an interesting bug for one of our projects running on CI.
Dan Barber
March 24, 2020
- Chrome
- ChromeDriver
- Capybara
- Cookie
- Domain
- SSL
- TLS
- CircleCI
- CI
Recurring Events and PostgreSQL

Scheduling, recurring events and relative dates have always been hard. Until now.
Jonas Meinerz
March 24, 2020
- PostgreSQL
- Dates
- Interval
- Rails
- Ruby
- Duration
- Web
- Databases
Modern TypeScript and React Development in Vim

Learn how to imbue your vim setup with the power of the TypeScript language server.
Wil Hall
March 23, 2020
- Vim
- TypeScript
- React
- JavaScript
File Upload with Elm and ActiveStorage

Making Elm + Rails/ActiveStorage play nice together.
Anthony Moffa
March 20, 2020
- Active Storage
- Elm
- Rails
Workplace Design: A Parallel Universe to Software Development

A demand for workplace design strategists.
Larissa Lam
March 19, 2020
- Workplace Design
- Workplace Experience
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