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Lucky is Getting Bigger and Better: Announcing v0.6

Over 130 commits and 20 new features have been added to Lucky since the first announcement a month ago. Check out all that’s new in Lucky v0.6!
Paul Smith
November 30, 2017
- Lucky
- Crystal
- Web
Talking to ActionCable without Rails

How to talk to ActionCable without using Rails.
Bruno Antunes
November 30, 2017
- Web
- JavaScript
- Action Cable
- Websockets
- Redux
Breezing Through Android Boilerplate with Custom Activity Templates

A guide on how to create activity templates for Android Studio.
Alex Sullivan
November 29, 2017
- Kotlin
- Android
- Mobile
Graceful Switching of Worker Processes

How to avoid lost work from your job queues and worker processes.
Oli Peate
November 28, 2017
- Web
- Heroku
- Ruby
Opensourcing 'Write Yourself A Roguelike'

Our book on Ruby roguelike development is going opensource.
Bruno Antunes
November 27, 2017
- News
- Open Source
- Books
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
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