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Ready to rethink home care in America? Join us this week as Jon Levinson, co-founder of Clara Home Care, shares how his journey from TripAdvisor and Uber led to pioneering the first-ever caregiver-specific payroll platform. Tune in here: https://podcast.thoughtbot.com/541

Using constraints in Postgres and querying LLMs in the terminal.

This week in #dev (Aug 23, 2024)

This week we're joined by Karishma Gupta, the Founder and CEO of Eslando
Circular Fashion. Karishma delves into how her company is revolutionizing the fashion and textile industries, leveraging AI technology along the way. Tune in: https://podcast.thoughtbot.com/540

When the path forward is unclear, step back, zoom out and find clarity through context.

That murky project feel

Join us this week as Steve Polito shares how he seamlessly integrates open-source contributions into his daily workflow without compromising productivity. Learn practical tips for balancing work responsibilities with meaningful contributions: https://bikeshed.thoughtbot.com/437

You’ve got a business idea that you’re excited about – now what?

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Catch the Vision to Value Workshop Series on your own time You’ve got a business idea that you’re excited about – now what? Learn from...

It will make your code more flexible and easier to maintain.

Wrap your dependencies

Discover Belt, thoughtbot’s new CLI tool that simplifies starting React Native apps with smart defaults and easy feature integration. Perfect for developers looking to streamline their workflow.

Introducing Belt: Your New Favorite Tool for Starting React Native Apps

Sheng-Hung Lee is a designer and PhD researcher at MIT AgeLab. On this week's podcast, he shares his journey into design and emphasizes the evolving role of designers in addressing broader issues like climate change and aging.

Sheng-Hung discusses practical applications such as smart homes for aging populations, the importance of designing for different life stages, and his views on well-designed and poorly designed products.

🎧 https://podcast.thoughtbot.com/539

Renaming keys in a Hash, sanitizing input for a LIKE query, and toggling attributes in Rails.

This week in #dev (Aug 9, 2024)

Recent thoughtbot open source updates.

This Week in Open Source

Take a sneak peek at what folks at thoughtbot were up to last month during their Investment Time in this exciting new blog post series.

This Month in Investment Time: July 2024 Edition (Pilot)

Today we are thrilled to be back on the live stream!

Rob and Silumesii will pair on Rob's first ever "proper" Rails app. Rob's not touched the app in six years. Let's bring it back to life with modern best practices, and see what we learn along the way.

Join us at 9.45am UTC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfyOw-ASgPU
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Resurrecting an Untouched Rails App Rob wants to bring his first "proper" Rails app back to life. He's not touched the app for six years. Let's get it up to date and aligned with best practices!

We're live!

Silumesii and Rob are pairing on Rob's first ever "proper" Rails app. Rob's not touched the app in six years. Let's bring it back to life with modern best practices, and see what we learn along the way.

Join us now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfyOw-ASgPU
https://twitch.tv/thoughtbot

Resurrecting an Untouched Rails App Rob wants to bring his first "proper" Rails app back to life. He's not touched the app for six years. Let's get it up to date and aligned with best practices!

A list of things to check when something works on your computer but not on someone else’s.

It works on my machine. Why?

Sami Birnbaum and Rémy Hannequin interview Dan Clark, Founder and CEO of MindJam, which provides emotional and Special Educational Needs support for young people through gaming.

Dan shares how MindJam began to help neurodivergent youth using games like Minecraft, emphasizing gaming's benefits for cognitive and social development.

🎧 https://podcast.thoughtbot.com/538

When your custom collection has more than one way to be traversed, return Enumerator instead of including Enumerable.

Return an Enumerator When Your Collection Has Multiple Traversals

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We explore several solutions to a common Hotwire problem.

Conditionally render a Turbo Frame shared between multiple views

A practical guide to understand the European Accessibility Act (EAA) and get started with your plan to comply.

Navigating the European Accessibility Act (EAA)

A conversation with the CTO and Co-founder of Clara, a recent thoughtbot client, about the strategy behind their decision to build their startup product with Rails and Hotwire.

Why CTOs are choosing Hotwire and Ruby on Rails

We're live!

Sami and Rob are pairing on Rob's first ever "proper" Rails app. Rob's not
touched the app in six years. Let's bring it back to life with modern best
practices, and see what we learn along the way.

Join us now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SINqlSfPy-o
https://twitch.tv/thoughtbot

Today we are thrilled to be back on the live stream!

Rob and Sami will pair on Rob's first ever "proper" Rails app. Rob's not touched the app in six years. Let's bring it back to life with modern best practices, and see what we learn along the way.

Join us at 9.45am UTC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SINqlSfPy-o
https://twitch.tv/thoughtbot

Don’t over-engineer. While there are some AI tasks that are better suited for Python, using a Ruby gem and some API calls will do the job for most cases.

Ruby on Rails is great for AI

On this week's episode, Marc G. Gauthier shares his journey from learning QBasic as a child to becoming a startup coach and founder of The Shadow Boxing App.

Rémy and Sami interview Marc about his experiences in scaling startups, emphasizing the balance between speed and reliability in software development and the challenges of managing rapid team growth.

🎧 https://podcast.thoughtbot.com/537

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A hidden Rails feature that can level up your debugging game.

Supercharge your Rails logs with tags

In this episode Sami Birnbaum and Rémy Hannequin discuss mental health in the age of AI with Sara Wilder, a Therapeutic Life Consultant.

Sara shares how the COVID-19 pandemic pushed her to integrate technology like AI into her practice. The conversation highlights the broader impact of technology on mental health, the need for ethical AI use, and maintaining human connection in digital therapy.

🎧 https://podcast.thoughtbot.com/536

Weren’t able to make it to Railsconf 2024? Here are some of the thoughtbot highlights from this year’s event, including the recordings of our team’s talks!

RailsConf 2024 highlights

Today on Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots Will and Chad interview Brock Dubbels, Principal UX and AI Researcher at CareTrainer.ai. Brock explains how to leverage AI to address the care crisis in elderly populations by automating routine tasks.

Give it a listen 🎧 https://podcast.thoughtbot.com/535