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thoughtbot on a11y
thoughtbot on Design Thinking
The Product Design Sprint
A Product Design Sprint (invented by Google Ventures) is a 5-phase exercise...
thoughtbot on Functional Programming
Iterative Development in Elm: HTTP
Fake out your HTTP requests for a tighter iteration cycle.
Conditionally handling events in Elm
Learn how to filter events in Elm and create an onEnter event handler!
thoughtbot on Rails
How We Test Rails Applications
I’m frequently asked what it takes to begin testing Rails applications. The...
thoughtbot on Typescript
TypeScript: Stop Using 'any', There's a Type For That
Chances are you’ve worked with the any type in TypeScript. It’s widely overused, and subtly dangerous. Let’s explore why you should avoid it, and when you might truly need to use it.
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