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The Bike Shed Ep 480: The President's Doctor with Jared Turner

Aji gets his priorities straight as he talks with fellow thoughtboter Jared Turner about his recent article titled The President’s Doctor.
Aji Slater
October 28, 2025
- Podcast
Extending factory_bot with custom strategies at thoughtbot Open Summit

Learn how to make factory_bot work for your unique product needs. At thoughtbot Open Summit, Neil Carvalho and José Blanco will lead a live, hands-on session on building custom strategies. Learn how teams can extend and adapt factory_bot for complex applications.
Lindsey Christensen
October 28, 2025
- Factory Bot
- Rails
- Events
Rethinking CSS with Roux - debuting at thoughtbot Open Summit

Remember Bourbon and Bitters? Meet their modern successor: Roux. Elaina Natario talks about her new CSS boilerplate that rethinks how teams structure and scale their styles without needing to reach for frameworks like Tailwind.
Lindsey Christensen
October 27, 2025
- CSS
- Open Source
- Events
- News
Bridging the gap between Rails and React with Superglue at thoughtbot Open Summit

Superglue creator Johny Ho will showcase how Superglue makes building interactive Rails apps with React feel as seamless as working with forms, routes, and partials. Get a first look at Superglue 2.0, learn how it works under the hood, and see why it’s redefining full-stack development the Rails way.
Lindsey Christensen
October 24, 2025
- Superglue
- Events
Announcing the thoughtbot Open Summit 2025 full schedule

From the live Administrate 1.0 release to hands-on sessions with factory_bot, Superglue and Active Agent, it’s shaping up to be a full day of open source collaboration. Check out the full lineup.
Lindsey Christensen
October 23, 2025
- Events
- News
- Open Source
Finding Your Niche as a Full Stack Designer

thoughtbot’s full stack designers are multi-faceted consultants with a myriad of skills. When tackling every project’s unique problems and dynamics, how do you know which skills to apply to which team?
Alex Chen
October 16, 2025
Putting our values to work: rethinking expenses

Learn how Ramp helped our remote team simplify expenses and focus on what we love.
Becky Dunbar
October 15, 2025
The Opinionated thoughtbotter: You're not a full-stack developer without CSS

Elaina has strong opinions for you about the importance of front end development. In this episode, host Svenja Schäfer sits down with Elaina Natario to unpack why understanding CSS is a non-negotiable for full-stack developers. Learn why Elai…
Elaina Natario and Svenja Schäfer
October 10, 2025
- Podcast
Giant Robots Podcast Ep 594: AI is Draining with Pablo Curell

Sami assesses the long term viability of AI with Pablo Curell as they break down the hype and logistics that surround the popular tool.
Sami Birnbaum
October 9, 2025
- Podcast
Releasing v 1.0 of Administrate LIVE at thoughtbot Open Summit

What if your admin dashboard worked the way Rails does? Administrate 1.0 is coming and it’s shipping live on October 31st at thoughtbot Open Summit.
Lindsey Christensen
October 7, 2025
- Rails
- Open Source
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