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Interrogate your experience with a mindmap

Turn vague experience into concrete takeaways by using a mindmap.
Joël Quenneville
February 5, 2025
- Writing
Connecting Deepseek to Rails plus more upcoming AI livestreams

thoughtbot continues AI in Focus weekly livestreams starting February 2025. In the first session, Chad Pytel will teach you how to connect Deepseek to your Rails app.
Lindsey Christensen
February 4, 2025
Reasons not to refactor

Refactoring is great and most developers should refactor more, but there are times when it is not appropriate. Ironically, if you’re aware of these, you may find yourself refactoring even more often than before.
Fritz Meissner
February 4, 2025
- Refactoring
- Good Code
This week in #dev (Jan 24, 2025)

Avoiding ReDoS attacks, using Active Resource in modern Rails, and how to improve flaky tests with Playwright.
thoughtbot
February 3, 2025
- This Week In Dev
- TIL
- Security
- Testing
- Rails
Things you might not need in your tests

Your test suite is slow and flaky because it does too much.
Matheus Richard
January 29, 2025
- Testing
- Performance
Build a (progressively enhanced) drawer component with Hotwire

You can get 90% of the way there with server-rendered templates and View Transitions.
Steve Polito
January 28, 2025
- Rails
- Hotwire
- Web
Turning experience into growth

You work a full time job shipping features. Use active learning to turn that experience into technical and professional growth.
Joël Quenneville
January 27, 2025
- Learning
- Development
Introducing the Noisy Animals kata

The Noisy Animals kata is designed to help developers think about the process of improving bad code.
Fritz Meissner
January 24, 2025
- Refactoring
- Ruby
A Product Manager's guide to 2025

A landscape founded by people who continuously push boundaries and move forward, it’s never a dull year in the realms of Product Management. In 2025, expect change, technological advancements, shifting consumer expectations, and new market dynamics.
Bethan Ashley
January 23, 2025
Why Rails in 2025?

Why should someone starting a new application in 2025 reach for Ruby on Rails?
Aji Slater
January 22, 2025
- Rails
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