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Hotwire vs. React Starts With Understanding the Browser | The Bike Shed Before you choose Hotwire, React, or another front-end approach, it helps to ask a more basic question: what is a browser? Joël and Sally explore how browsers work, how front-end and back-end…

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Joël Explains the Web in 45 Seconds Catch the full video episode and every episode of The Bike Shed by subscribing to thoughtbot's YouTube channel. #podcastclips #webdevelopment #development

One of Joël's superpowers is explaining things. Distilling complex ideas to simple truths. Deconstructing the fundamentals behind the tools developers use every day. www.youtube.com/shorts/f-2qO...

Claude Skill incoming! Generating Postman collections with AI When speed matters more than perfection, API documentation can quickly become a bottleneck. In this post, I share how we used thoughtbot’s Claude Skill to generate Postman collections directly from...

When speed matters more than perfection, API documentation can quickly become a bottleneck. In this post, I share how we used thoughtbot’s Claude Skill to generate Postman collections directly from a Rails codebase.

Combine Capybara selectors to avoid the sequential timeout trap How I shaved over a minute off a test suite with a one-line change.

How I shaved over a minute off a test suite with a one-line change.

"Trust me" and Other Famous Last Words from Developers Indexing into arrays isn’t ALWAYS wrong, but..... Sally Hall and Joël Quenneville talk about subtle bugs and why “just trust me” rarely ends well. Watch this full episode of The Bike Shed -…

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Your chat bot needs a better rate limit strategy Don’t let one ambitious user trigger a denial of service.

Don't let one ambitious user trigger a denial of service.

Checkout the newest episode of the Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots podcast out now!

603: The product we are going to build
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Sami returns and, along with his fellow hosts, discusses a brand new tool currently in pre-production at thoughtbot.

How to choose and implement an LLM for your healthcare product Choosing and implementing the right large language model for healthcare requires balancing security, economics, and inevitable hallucinations. Here’s what you need to know before integrating AI into...

Choosing and implementing the right large language model for healthcare requires balancing security, economics, and inevitable hallucinations. Here’s what you need to know before integrating AI into your product.

Candid conversations between senior developers | The Bike Shed on video On The Bike Shed, hosts Joël Quenneville, Sally Hall, and Aji Slater discuss development experiences and challenges at thoughtbot with Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and whatever else is drawing their…

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Allow us to reintroduce ourselves - The Bike Shed on video! Have you been keeping up with thoughtbot's popular development podcast, The Bike Shed? If you've been holding out for a video version - have we got great news for you! Join hosts Joël Quenneville,…

Have you been keeping up with our podcast, The Bike Shed? Allow us to reintroduce ourselves - on video!

Join hosts Joël Quenneville, Sally Hall, and Aji Slater every week for candid conversations about building products - from greenfield apps to legacy software. www.youtube.com/shorts/PDTSh...

Claude Code skills: Automating FDA-required documentation for software as a medical device Generating and maintaining FDA-required documentation for software as a medical device can be tedious and time-consuming. We built a Claude Code skill to automate documentation for 510(k) submissions.

Generating and maintaining FDA-required documentation for software as a medical device can be tedious and time-consuming. We built a Claude Code skill to automate documentation for 510(k) submissions.

A JavaScript developer's guide to Rails: Authorization with Pundit Learn how Pundit authorization actually works in Rails, from request flow to policy scopes, with practical examples for JavaScript developers.

Learn how Pundit authorization actually works in Rails, from request flow to policy scopes, with practical examples for JavaScript developers.

Our first Tech Leaders Meetup in Bristol, UK Our Tech Leader UK Tour is coming to Bristol on March 19th. This is your invite to connect in person with the thoughtbot team and other product leaders in South West England.

Our Tech Leader UK Tour is coming to Bristol on March 19th. This is your invite to connect in person with the thoughtbot team and other product leaders in South West England.

Going beyond vibe coding with ReadySetGo Introducing ReadySetGo. An AI application generator that creates first versions of products, built in Rails, to thoughtbot’s best practices. Not throwaway, vibe-coded prototypes. Real foundations that...

Introducing ReadySetGo. An AI application generator that creates first versions of products, built in Rails, to thoughtbot’s best practices. Not throwaway, vibe-coded prototypes. Real foundations that can be built upon.

props_template 1.0: A high performance, more opinionated jbuilder replacement props_template 1.0: A high performance, more opinionated jbuilder replacement

props_template 1.0: A high performance, more opinionated jbuilder replacement

Going beyond vibe coding with ReadySetGo Introducing ReadySetGo. An AI application generator that creates first versions of products, built in Rails, to thoughtbot’s best practices. Not throwaway, vibe-coded prototypes. Real foundations that...

Introducing ReadySetGo. An AI application generator that creates first versions of products, built in Rails, to thoughtbot’s best practices. Not throwaway, vibe-coded prototypes. Real foundations that can be built upon.

Our first Tech Leaders Meetup in Bristol, UK Our Tech Leader UK Tour is coming to Bristol on March 19th. This is your invite to connect in person with the thoughtbot team and other product leaders in South West England.

Our Tech Leader UK Tour is coming to Bristol on March 19th. This is your invite to connect in person with the thoughtbot team and other product leaders in South West England.

A JavaScript developer's guide to Rails: Authorization with Pundit Learn how Pundit authorization actually works in Rails, from request flow to policy scopes, with practical examples for JavaScript developers.

Learn how Pundit authorization actually works in Rails, from request flow to policy scopes, with practical examples for JavaScript developers.

Refactoring with AI and Call of Duty Zombies In this episode of Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots, Chad Pytel and Sammy Birnbaum discuss refactoring Rails code with AI, what MCP servers actually do, and whether LLM tools are making…

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If you’re actively using AI AND actively questioning it (when to use it, how it works, what it actually enables vs. what slows you down), you might feel like those nuanced conversations are missing in hype land.

These are the conversations we're having on our shows and we hope you join in.

Unlock AI insights with Jason Stadther from TrueCar as we explore its seismic impact on development careers and its role in shaping the future internet. Are we building for ourselves or AI? Dive into this episode of Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots podcast.thoughtbot.com/602

props_template 1.0: A high performance, more opinionated jbuilder replacement props_template 1.0: A high performance, more opinionated jbuilder replacement

props_template 1.0: A high performance, more opinionated jbuilder replacement

A JavaScript developer's guide to Rails: What is Polymorphic Rails Model? Learn how Rails polymorphic associations work under the hood, from database schema to model setup, with clear examples for JavaScript developers new to ActiveRecord.

Learn how Rails polymorphic associations work under the hood, from database schema to model setup, with clear examples for JavaScript developers new to ActiveRecord.

Claude Code: Production ready code in a two-week sprint AI-generated code doesn’t have to be throwaway code. Here’s how we used Claude Code to build a fully-tested, production-quality Rails prototype in two weeks, complete with a robust test suite, clean...

AI-generated code doesn't have to be throwaway code. Here's how we used Claude Code to build a fully-tested, production-quality Rails prototype in two weeks, complete with a robust test suite, clean commits, and code we were proud to have written.

Teach your models to act, not just be …or end up hunting for logic in jobs and controllers.

…or end up hunting for logic in jobs and controllers.

Figma AI Tutorial | Duplicate components [with realistic content] This tutorial shows how to use Figma’s AI features to easily duplicate components and frames but with realistic and unique content to make your Figma prototype feel real.

Our Senior Designer, Ferdia Kenny, shows you how to quickly duplicate components with realistic data using Figma AI in the latest thoughtbot Design Short: youtube.com/shorts/f2LqT...

Announcing Michel: A scheduling gem for health tech Remove bottlenecks to booking appointments by enabling self-scheduling within your app.

Remove bottlenecks to booking appointments by enabling self-scheduling within your app.

A JavaScript developer's guide to Rails: ActiveRecord Fundamentals Learn how Rails ActiveRecord differs from JavaScript ORMs and why the database-first approach eliminates boilerplate.

Learn how Rails ActiveRecord differs from JavaScript ORMs and why the database-first approach eliminates boilerplate.

What do our workspaces look like? (2026 Edition) Come and see some of thoughtbot’s fabulous workspaces.

Come and see some of thoughtbot's fabulous workspaces.

A JavaScript developer's guide to Rails: What does Composition Over Inheritance mean? Rails framework code is full of inheritance magic, but your application code doesn’t have to be. Learn how composition makes dependencies explicit, testing easier, and debugging a breeze—using patterns...

Rails framework code is full of inheritance magic, but your application code doesn't have to be. Learn how composition makes dependencies explicit, testing easier, and debugging a breeze—using patterns you already know from JavaScript.