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Two ways of looking at map functions

Map functions are hard to “get” in the abstract. This looks at two mental models that helped me understand them better.
Joël Quenneville
November 20, 2017
FormKeep Moves to Furious Collective

FormKeep, the easy-to-use cloud database that gives developers and web designers a simple way to capture, store, and share data collected from web forms, has been acquired by Furious Collective.
Chad Pytel
November 15, 2017
- News
- Formkeep
Host your blog under /blog on your www domain with Fastly

You’re here for the link juice, amirite?
Ian Zabel
November 6, 2017
- Blog
- SEO
- Fastly
- CDN
- Proxy
- Rails
- Marketing
Join thoughtbot in supporting App Camp for Girls

We’re supporting App Camp for Girls and matching your donation. Take advantage of this opportunity, and help this amazing organization.
Chad Pytel
November 3, 2017
- News
Staffing At a Consultancy

As an agile product consultancy, we often have to make adjustments to team sizes to accommodate new clients and optimize current teams. Our current scheduling process gets the job done, but it has it’s problems. We ran a quick experiment to see if we could improve it.
Jason Ramirez
November 3, 2017
- Staffing
- Teams
Ways I've experimented with Design Sprints to make them more sustainable.

I’ve found facilitating a product design sprint really draining for my team and me. Here are a few things that we’ve tried to make them more sustainable.
Kyle Fiedler
November 2, 2017
- Design Sprints
- Product Design
Lucky, an experimental new web framework by thoughtbot

Lucky, a new Crystal web framework built to catch bugs at compile time, run quickly, and help you write maintainable code.
Paul Smith
October 27, 2017
- Lucky
- Crystal
- Web
Our Favorite Events During Startup Week in Austin

Our recap of some of the best events during Austin Starup Week.
Kyle Fiedler
October 26, 2017
- Startup
- Events
- Austin
Bridging Elm and JavaScript with Ports

Elm is strongly-typed; JavaScript is not. Communication between the two is paramount for large applications and ports enable this.
Josh Clayton
October 25, 2017
- Elm
- JavaScript
- Web
factory_bot

factory_girl is becoming factory_bot.
Avielle Wolfe and Josh Clayton
October 24, 2017
- News
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
- RSpec
- Ruby
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
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