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Prioritizing Your Work

It’s hard pick the most important thing to work on. Here’s a guide to help.
Edward Loveall
August 27, 2019
- Process
- Consulting
Kafka Basics: Tables vs Streams

Learn the difference between a Table and a Stream in Kafka and when to use them.
Edward Loveall
August 26, 2019
- Kafka
- Data
Type-safe state modeling with TypeScript and React Hooks

Utilize the power of Typescript to model your React application’s state and context with confidence.
Wil Hall
August 23, 2019
- TypeScript
- React
- Hooks
- State
- Context
Iterative Development in Elm: HTTP

Fake out your HTTP requests for a tighter iteration cycle.
Joël Quenneville
August 20, 2019
- Elm
- Web
- Process
Velocity vs. Quality - How do developers and founders meet in the middle?

Finding the right balance between writing quality software and shipping features rapidly.
Tom Wey
August 19, 2019
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
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