 teaches how to build GitHub-style hovercards for your Rails application. It uses minimal JavaScript, relying on 

Will Ceolin

Turbolinks, Stimulus, and Server Rendered HTML is a compelling alternative to modern JavaScript single page apps. Let’s build a hovercard to see how you can kick it old school with a more boring approach.

Building GitHub-style Hovercards with Stimulus and HTML-over-the-wire

Building hovercards on Ruby on Rails

 is a guide for social entrepreneurs to learn how to start and scale a tech nonprofit organization. This guide was created by 

, an accelerator of nonprofits using technology to solve social problems.

The Tech Nonprofit Playbook distills best-in-class advice from the tech nonprofit leaders whose work has transformed the social impact space.

The Tech Nonprofit Playbook - How to Start and Scale a Tech Nonprofit

How to start a tech nonprofit

Jason Evanish compiled an interesting list 101 of questions to ask in one on ones. According to him, "this list will help you make the most of each meeting and have a quick reference when you feel your questions may be getting stale or you have a few minutes left in a one on one."

He covers the following categories of questions:

So you’re having one on ones with your team. Awesome. It’s an essential element to being a good manager. But are you making the most of them? Do you come in prepared and ready to make t…

101 Questions to Ask in One on Ones

Questions to ask in 1 on 1s

Jonas Downey explains how Basecamp built their new email service, 

. Basecamp design lead, Downey was one of the first people to experiment with what would eventually become Hey.

Basecamp design lead Jonas Downey was one of the first people to experiment with what would eventually become Hey, Basecamp’s newly launched email service. Jonas comes on Rework to talk about building software for humans, preserving a sense of fun weirdness as a new product evolves, and managing a big launch during a tumultuous time.



Designing Hey

How Basecamp designed Hey, their new email service

Tutorial teaching how to integrate a MongoDB database into a Next.js application.

Learn how to couple Next.js and MongoDB for your next-generation applications.

Building Modern Applications with Next.js and MongoDB

Building apps with Next.js and MongoDB

 provides interactive exercises and practical problems for learning (and practicing) Regex (Regular expressions).

RegexOne provides a set of interactive lessons and exercises to help you learn regular expressions

RegexOne - Learn Regular Expressions - Lesson 1: An Introduction, and the ABCs

Interactive exercises for learning Regex

This tutorial teaches you how to set up, configure, and use PostgreSQL on macOS. By the time we are finished, you will:

Know how to create and manage databases and users

Know how to use both command-line and UI tools to manage your database

How to set up, configure, and use PostgreSQL on MacOSX 10.7(Lion) and above. 

Getting Started with PostgreSQL on Mac OSX | Codementor

How to set up PostgreSQL on Mac OSX

 to explain how his company is benefiting from remote work. They also have a 

All communication is thoughtful. Because nothing is urgent (unless the site is down), comments are made after mindful processing and never in real-time. There's no drama.

Because everyone is always effectively "blocked," everyone plans ahead. It also means anyone can disappear for an hour, a day, or a week and not feel like they are holding the company back. Even me!

People build their work around their life, not the other way around. This is especially great for new parents, but everyone benefits from being able to structure their days to maximize their happiness and productivity.

This is possible because everything is documented. And because everyone talks through different text-based mediums, it's easy for people to peer into anything if they're curious (or take over if need be). There are also no meetings, and all numbers are public, so there's no FOMO.

The software we ship is well-tested and incredibly stable. It has to be because we're never online at the same time to "deploy" together. There are rarely fires to fight, and we lower the amount of technical debt we have at Gumroad every week too!

Overall, it's a very low-stress environment. Many of us don't even have Slack installed. Yet, we're shipping the best software we've ever shipped, and growing faster than ever. Funny how that works!

twitter.com

Sell music, comics, software, books, and films directly to your audience.

Gumroad

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.

Sahil Lavingia shares his experience working remotely

How Gumroad benefits from remote work

Remote work is increasingly important. More companies are offering remote jobs, and more people are looking for them. In this chapter, we'll cover how to get started with remote work, including the benefits and best practices. 

Getting started

Traditional companies are always trying to find excuses for not allowing their employees to work remotely. Let's see some of those myths:

There's a common belief in the corporate world that innovation only happens when a group of people gathers around face-to-face to brainstorm ideas. Remote companies such as 

 are proving that belief is just a myth. It's usually an excuse traditional companies use to keep controlling and micromanaging their employees.

Bad managers think their employees will only work if they're being watched. It's a common excuse for not adopting remote work that usually shows deeper issues a company has with poor management. It usually shows a lack of trust.

If people really want to play video games or surf the web all day, they’re perfectly capable of doing so from their desks at the office. In fact, lots of studies have shown that many people do exactly that. For example, at clothing retailer J.C. Penney’s headquarters, 4,800 workers spend 30 percent of the company’s Internet bandwidth watching YouTube videos. * So, coming into the office just means that people have to put on pants. There’s no guarantee of productivity.

As they also say: "if you can’t let your employees work from home out of fear they’ll slack off without your supervision, you’re a babysitter, not a manager."

Richard Branson also has a similar philosophy

To successfully work with other people, you have to trust each other. A big part of this is trusting people to get their work done wherever they are, without supervision.

Security shouldn't be an excuse nowadays. There are plenty of solutions out there. Here's a checklist from the book "Remote: Office not required":

All computers must use hard drive encryption (e.g. FileVault on Macs)

Require a password to login into your computer

Turn on encryption for all sites you visit

Make sure smartphones use lock codes and can be wiped remotely

Use unique, strong passwords (a password manager makes it easier to do)

Turn on two-factor authentication for the services you use

This excuse is more common than one would think. When a company cannot have everyone working remotely (e.g. a logistic business), you might hear an executive saying you cannot work remotely because other people would get jealous. However, as Jason Fried and DHH point out:

Why force everyone in the organization to work the same way? The guy sending packages from the warehouse already has a different job from the girl running the books in accounting. Different jobs, different requirements. People get that.

If you have a boss like that, remember them that everyone should have the best environment to do their best work. For someone taking care of inventory, that might be the office. But for you or your team, the ideal conditions might be working remotely. Freedom is key here.

Building culture is a challenge. That's why we have created a 

. However, that's not an impossible task. Some managers might mistake building culture by offering a ping-pong table or having beers on Friday. Culture is more than that, it's about the 

"It's hard to collaborate without a physical office." This myth usually comes from people who have an "ASAP" mentality: they need everything right away, nothing can wait. When you start working asynchronously, you realize most questions aren't so urgent as you think. If there's a real crisis happening, you always the option to use the telephone.

Most people struggle to get rid of the "ASAP" behavior. So, don't feel bad if you see yourself calling your colleagues all the time in the beginning. With time, you'll realize that most stuff can wait and you can just keep working on something else in the meantime. When you do realize it, you'll collaboration actually becomes easier because people have fewer interruptions, hence more time being productive.

"This is very nice but it doesn't work for us." If you're trying to push for remote work on your company, you'll hear that. Executives pay thousands of dollars to training programs just to come back to the company and tell others what wonderful things other people doing but, unfortunately, "that would never work for us."

This excuse is the easiest one to prevent any change from happening because change is hard and executives don't like that. Today, there are companies from multiple industries (and sizes) that do remote work (either fully or partially). We have even 

“From project planning and source code management to CI/CD and monitoring, GitLab is a complete DevOps platform, delivered as a single application. Only GitLab enables Concurrent DevOps to make the software lifecycle 200% faster.”

The first single application for the entire DevOps lifecycle - GitLab

Basecamp is the calm, organized, all-in-one way to work remote.

Replace all over the place with ONE place.

Build your audience and grow your brand on social media.

Simpler social media tools for authentic engagement | Buffer

In this book, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson show both employers and employees how they can work together, remotely, from any desk, in any place, anytime, anywhere.

REMOTE: Office Not Required | BasecampBasecamp logo

Give people the freedom of where to work

One of the main challenges when working remotely is building up culture. Let's explore how companies are solving this challenge and what you can do to make your business develop a great remote culture

Management & Culture | Zoonk

Building culture when working remotely is a challenge and it's often an excuse to avoid remote work. However, many companies don't understand what is culture. You'll often see executives giving free b

Building culture is about actions | Zoonk

Caring about your co-workers is essential for building up a culture whether they're remote or not. Fortunately, remote work makes it easier by increasing flexibility and reducing politics.


Let's cov

Caring about your co-workers | Zoonk

Doctors are controlling scalpel-wielding robots in real operations from afar, finds Rose Eveleth. Is this the future of surgery?

The surgeon who operates from 400km away

For Amy Rosenfeld, having a close-up seat to the evolution of soccer broadcasting is surreal. She still remembers “being dragged” by her father to hotels in Boston to watch grainy soccer games on c…

How ESPN plans to save millions on broadcasts without you ever knowing

Common excuses companies use to avoid working remotely

Myths about remote work

This material explains the basic principles of 

, plus two applications: the quantum search algorithm and quantum teleportation.

You'll need familiarity with the basics of linear algebra and complex numbers.

A free introduction to quantum computing and quantum mechanics