It’s been an intense few years. It was nice to take a step back and make one of these posts again. Thank you all.

New year, new job? Tomorrow is the deadline to apply for our design and development Apprenticeship across the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Africa that start in March: thoughtbot.com/jobs#apprentic… If you miss this round, the next one will open in late February for May positions.

Just a bit of time left to apply. I’m serving as apprenticeship coordinator for all incoming apprentices. So I’m looking forward to personally working with each one towards promotion.

Does joining the thoughtbot team for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa interest you? Are you not quite sure if we'd be the right fit? Would you like to have a chat with me? Now you can! Sign up now! calendly.com/purinkle/coffee

This week we are hosting a roundtable #discussion featuring industry leaders’ experiences and best practices on #DesignSystems! 🙌 If you have a Design System that is falling short or are interested in potentially introducing one, join us. thoughtbot.com/events/design-…

We're thrilled to welcome Victoria Guido as our new Associate Director, Business Development & DevOps Strategy! Victoria G #DevOps

Today thoughtbot celebrates 19 years and we want to thank our teammates, partners, and clients for their contributions to our growth and success! Here's to many more years of delivering #agile #software #design, #development, and support. thoughtbot.com/hire-us

We have another exciting milestone to celebrate this month! Our #podcast, Giant Robots Podcast, is turning 10! Congrats to our host/founder Chad Pytel on hitting double digits. Check out our vintage episodes or our most recent chat featuring Owen McGab Enaohwo. giantrobots.fm

I've been playing D&D regularly for over 25 years, and I love it. Over the last few years I’ve started to DM more, and have collected some thoughts on my preferred style. First up, Character Backgrounds and Alignment: chadpytel.com/dnd/background…

Next up, my current approach to Combat in D&D, particularly using theater of the mind, chadpytel.com/dnd/combat.html

🏳️‍🌈 Hear Chad Pytel talk to Deborah Levine of Matthew about working on a digital #mentalhealth tool to support and help #LGBTQ teens explore + affirm their identity, founding Q Chat Space, and how products + online interaction have changed & evolved. giantrobots.fm/428 🏳️‍🌈

This was also a fun episode because it was recorded with a live thoughtbot audience.

🙌🏾 We love our #remotework #culture and making it better all the time. Now we're pumped to be recognized by Quartz as one of the Best Companies for Remote Workers in 2022! 🏆 Read about all the winners here lnkd.in/g3eQjUbr #QuartzBestCompanies

I am excited to share our upcoming event! Follow thoughtbot and use #AMAthoughtbotPM to participate in the Ask-Me-Anything event with our Product Management team on October 27th; 10 AM - 12 PM EST

I’ve been playing D&D for a long time, and I just had what is likely the best play experience I’ve ever had at #dndinacastle with Jasper William Cartwright as my DM, along with four incredible party members.

Back at D&D in a Castle, this time with Jeremy Cobb for another amazing experience with a great table. I rolled a Nat 20 against the Big Bad with the rest of the party down

I’ve started a nerdy production company with Jasper William Cartwright and I’m going to be posting most of my gaming and nerdy content on Instagram going forward instagram.com/chad.pytel I’m at Gen Con now so you can see new stuff about the con there now.

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: thoughtbot.com/blog/ruby-on-r…

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