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Announcing: Our Online Learning Platform Upcase is Now Free!

We’ve got some big news about our online learning platform Upcase, and we think you’re gonna love it!
Chris Toomey
October 18, 2018
- News
- Upcase
- Rails
- Web
- Git
- Vim
- tmux
Is Elixir a scripting language?

Elixir is known for being a language made for building distributed applications that scale, are massively concurrent, and have self-healing properties. But is Elixir good enough for the mundane scripts of this world?
German Velasco
October 15, 2018
People, not resources

Hello, fellow resources!
Ian Zabel
October 12, 2018
- Language
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- Teams
- Consulting
Static Types In Medias Res

Adding static types after the fact can be a boon to your React Native codebase.
Sid Raval
October 8, 2018
We Don’t Always Know What’s Better for Us

We self-selected open offices because they felt better. How do we ensure we’re making good long term choices and not just choosing what feels good now?
Chad Pytel
October 5, 2018
- Playbook
Building a Startup is Hard, Let's Make it Easier

Purpose-built is a new resource center to bring expert advice to founders, no matter their level of technical expertise.
Thom Obarski
September 18, 2018
- Business
- Community
- News
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The Icebox is where stories go to die

Get rid of your Icebox. Reduce your overhead, clarify your roadmap, and make it easier to estimate timelines.
Chad Pytel
September 17, 2018
- Playbook
Write good commit messages by blaming others

To write good commit messages, you must read commit messages. And to read commit messages, you must use git blame effectively.
German Velasco
September 3, 2018
- Git
- Vim
- DevTools
- Tools
- Productivity
The Real Story Behind Story Points

I estimate a 13.
Stephanie Viccari and Matt Sumner
August 27, 2018
- Process
- Business
Deprecating static attributes in factory_bot 4.11

Static attributes have been the source of much confusion over the years. Their deprecation will come with a rubocop-rspec Cop to automatically replace with dynamic attributes.
Daniel Colson
August 16, 2018
- Factory Bot
- Open Source
- Testing
- Ruby
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