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Vibe coding might get you 80% of the way there. But the other 20% is what really counts. It's what makes you stand out from AI slop and helps you avoid huge accessibility fines.…

The most common path for companies like ours is to be sold. We're taking a different path. The THOUGHTBOT PURPOSE TRUST is designed to preserve our values and mission.

We lived with flaky tests for years until Claude found a solution overnight. It only took two weeks to make the solution useful.

Treat your AI feature like a software you can watch, not a model you hope works.

A case for verbosity in CSS properties.

The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

Supply chain attacks are getting more common. RubyGems might be next. Here's how to help the ecosystem be safer.

Your devices are all judging you. They're just too polite to say it directly.

LLM calls are black boxes in production. Learn how to add structured observability to your RubyLLM-powered app with OpenTelemetry.

It's fine. We can still write good code.

An investigation into Ruby's C, stdlib, interfaces, libraries, tooling, and ecosystem into what, exactly, Ruby thinks a Boolean is.

Joël and Aji kick off a new season by discussing the best use cases for HTTP basic auth and talking all things security.

Tips from an AI skeptic for working with a team which uses AI a lot.

A quiet but important milestone for Git.

Automatically filter sensitive information before sending it to external services or APIs, such as chatbots and LLMs.

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A baseline of commands and concepts that you need to navigate your command-line shell in a professional environment.

Joël continues his preparations for the last RailsConf as he talks with Matheus about how to make the most of your time at the conference.

Intuition often wins over familiarity.

Joël and Rémy draw inspiration from the stars as they discuss Rémy's new open source Ruby gem, Astonoby.

If someone tries to steal a penguin, how should you warn them?

It is not always possible to have frozen AND performant objects in Ruby.

The feedback we get from users is not what it seems! As software creators we apply a lens that makes us take user feedback in many different - often unhelpful - ways from how it…

A learning, problem solving, and debugging technique.

We're shifting our focus to more inclusive platforms that foster meaningful conversations. Learn how to stay connected with us through places like our blog, newsletter, Mastodon,…

Need to fetch the opposite data for an existing ActiveRecord query? Rails invert_where makes it effortless, but be careful with the side effects.

Write code that's easier to read, remix, and modify by following this trio of principles.

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 refacto…

Your test suite is slow and flaky because it does too much.

How a weird product ruined my brain for a week.

Superglue 1.0 is released! Learn about pairing Rails and React and why being thoughtful matters.

Make your shell workflow as smooth as possible by creating helpers designed just for you.

Have you been shuffling accessibility compliance all around your roadmap this year? Here are 5 ways to integrate it as a practice to supercharge your product strategy instead.