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flatMap Your Job Queue

Make your job queue more performant, robust, and understandable by breaking it up into a pipeline of messages.
Joe Ferris
August 16, 2019
- Data
New online workshop: Practical applications of Jobs-to-be-Done for designing successful digital products

Announcing our digital workshop introducing how thoughtbot applies Jobs-to-be-Done theory in practical ways to design and build the right features.
Kyle Fiedler
August 15, 2019
- Workshops
- Jobs To Be Done
Getting Unstuck with Elm JSON Decoders

Solving a Maybe problem is often easier than solving a Decode one.
Joël Quenneville
August 8, 2019
- Elm
- Web
Using Redux with React Hooks

React Redux launched support for Hooks. We will explore the new useSelector and useDispatch hooks and look into the tradeoffs of using these hooks versus the connect higher-order component.
Stephen Hanson
July 30, 2019
- React
- Redux
- JavaScript
- Web
.git/safe

How to use .git/safe to trust the bin/ directory in your git repo.
Ian Zabel and Mike Burns
July 29, 2019
- Shell
- Git
- Rails
Better domain modeling in Elixir with sum types

Sum types are a powerful domain modeling technique. Let’s look at how to use them to remove invalid states.
German Velasco
July 26, 2019
Profiling Vim

Vim enables you to edit text rapidly, but what do you do when Vim itself is slow? Profile!
Chris Thorn
July 15, 2019
- Vim
- Performance
- Tools
Redesigning How We Hire Designers at thoughtbot

How we improved our Designer hiring process for both our candidates and interviewers.
Kyle Fiedler
June 28, 2019
- Design
- Process
- Hiring
Making Your Version Number Super-Visible in iOS

If you can’t tell me what version of my app you’re running, we’re both stuck.
Louis Antonopoulos
June 26, 2019
- Swift
- iOS
- Mobile
- User Experience
TDDing in React with Apollo and TypeScript

Pointers for doing TDD with React using Apollo and TypeScript.
Alejandro Dustet
June 25, 2019
- Testing
- TDD
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- GraphQL
- Apollo
- React
- Web
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