Chad Pytel recently joined Steven Wardell’s Digital Health Investor Talk series to discuss how healthcare can best use AI. If you missed it, the session recording is now live.
Override the to_param method on your object to customize how Rails builds the id to put in the URL.
I create a lot but never run out of ideas. Part of my secret is the note-taking system I use.
Turn vague experience into concrete takeaways by using a mindmap.
thoughtbot continues AI in Focus weekly livestreams starting February 2025. In the first session, Chad Pytel will teach you how to connect Deepseek to your Rails app.
Refactoring is great and most developers should refactor more, but there are times when it is not appropriate. Ironically, if you’re aware of these, you may find yourself refactoring even more often than before.
Avoiding ReDoS attacks, using Active Resource in modern Rails, and how to improve flaky tests with Playwright.
Your test suite is slow and flaky because it does too much.
You can get 90% of the way there with server-rendered templates and View Transitions.
You work a full time job shipping features. Use active learning to turn that experience into technical and professional growth.