The Calm Company (our next book) etc.

It’s about time for something new. What follows is the introduction to our next book The Calm Company. We’re working on it now, and will be shopping to publishers soon for publication later this year…

GitLab's Head of Product shares an inside look at iterating on one of our latest features

Many of the most common ActiveRecord idioms produce SQL which doesn't scale well as your dataset gets larger. In this article I discuss three of the worst offenders and offer work-arounds.

Ruby has a built-in tracing system which you can access using the TracePoint class. Some of the things you can trace are method calls, new threads & exceptions. Why would you want to use this? Well, it could be useful if you want to trace the execution of a certain method. You will be able […]

Today I checked one of the solutions made by our Junior Rails Developer class student. As part of the course they make Rails apps but also learn from smaller code examples delivered by exercism.io. I found there an opportunity for him to learn more about a few things...

Your project's git log can tell you stories, but you have to know how to look for them. Here's how I explore a code base's history, using built-in command line tools.

At Basecamp, we have a monthly automatic check-in called What are you reading? It’s a great way to discover new books by recommendation of what your colleagues are reading, but it’s also a great way…

Some say: "Event sourcing is hard". Some say: "You need a framework to use Event Sourcing". Some say: ... Meh. You aren't gonna need it.

Over many years of experience and numerous projects delivered to our clients, we have learned that a good product idea and execution aren’t enough in today’s world. To succeed, you’ll need to answer critical business questions through research, design, prototyping and testing – all this with a user-centered approach in mind. So we introduced Product Discovery Sprints, a series of workshops based on Google Design Sprints. Read more and learn how a product discovery sprint can help you launch a better product.