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The age of snarky UI

Your devices are all judging you. They’re just too polite to say it directly.
Elaina Natario
April 15, 2026
AI in Focus: A new Claude Skill for Rails code audits

Learn what happened when Chad installed the open source rails-audit-thoughtbot Claude skill, ran it on thoughtbot’s decade-old internal Hub app, and walked through hits, misses, and how we’d tighten the skill over time.
Chad Pytel and Kate Young
April 13, 2026
You, too, can make a boilerplate

Adapt your own patterns and processes into a reusable piece of content.
Elaina Natario
April 10, 2026
- CSS
- Process
Sixty-six commits and the commands that didn't survive

In week two of building a management system with Claude Code, I created fifteen commands in a day. By the end of the week, I’d deleted three of them.
Rob Whittaker
April 8, 2026
Attending and speaking at Haggis Ruby

thoughtbot is heading to Haggis Ruby in Glasgow on April 23-24. Come find us.
Rob Whittaker
March 31, 2026
- Events
- Ruby
Enhancing job reliability with Sidekiq Pro's super fetch strategy

Explores how the core Sidekiq fetch behavior has the potential to lead to loss of job data and how the super fetch strategy provided by Sidekiq Pro can resolve this.
Valerie Burzynski
March 30, 2026
- Sidekiq
- Rails
The Opinionated thoughtbotter: Bootstrap is the Superior Front-End Toolkit

Steve Polito makes the case for Bootstrap as the best front-end toolkit for server-rendered applications. In this episode of The Opinionated thoughtbotter, he and Svenja Schäfer debate Bootstrap vs. Tailwind, MVP speed, customization, documen…
Svenja Schäfer
March 27, 2026
- Podcast
How strategic product design reduces risk before you write code

Common ways projects in regulated industries fail and how thoughtbot designers proactively reduce risk.
Andrew Spencer
March 27, 2026
- Design Sprints
- Process
- AI
- Design
Giant Robots Podcast Ep 606: AI layoffs are BS

Chad, Sami and Will bring a growing issue to the forefront as they discuss whether AI really is to blame for recent industry layoffs.
Chad Pytel, Will Larry & Sami Birnbaum
March 26, 2026
- Podcast
Meet Duck Typer: your new duck typing friend

Keep the beauty of duck typing with no annotations while still catching missing methods, mismatched signatures, and accidental drift across classes.
Thiago Araújo Silva
March 23, 2026
- RSpec
- Minitest
- Testing
- Ruby
- OOP
- Development
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