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November 25, 2024

Perspectives

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The 12-Line Pull Request That Took 5 Days: A Context Problem
We have more AI developer tools than ever, yet many of us still feel unproductive. Why? Maybe it's because we're not using AI to tackle the biggest challenge in software development yet.

November 19, 2024

Releases

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Customizing Unblocked’s answers
With Answer Preferences, you now get more control over how Unblocked answers your questions - from setting the length, research depth, and more.

November 13, 2024

Product tips

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Question confidential: Asking questions in private with Unblocked’s Incognito Mode
Incognito mode provides complete privacy for your code questions. Learn best practices to leverage this feature across all platforms.

October 29, 2024

Customer stories

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Big Cartel: “Unblocked is like having a smart colleague available 24/7.”
Big Cartel’s lean, remote team works across functional boundaries to ship quickly. But before Unblocked, making sure everyone understood how the legacy codebase worked was a challenge.

October 23, 2024

Company

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Unblocked + DX - a new partnership for impact
Unblocked is embarking on a new partnership with DX - the developer intelligence platform designed by leading researchers to give true insight into the productivity of software development teams.

October 16, 2024

Releases

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Introducing new features that make Unblocked even more helpful in Slack
We’re expanding the ways teams can get fast, accurate, and relevant answers to their questions in Slack with auto responses, support for private channels, bot DMs, and channel summarizations.

October 9, 2024

Customer stories

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AppDirect: “Unblocked has been a game-changer for efficiency and focus.”
For the team at AppDirect, Unblocked checks all the boxes and more, tying together knowledge dispersed across internal platforms and giving developers context right where they’re working.

September 26, 2024

Company

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A Year of Unblocking Engineering Teams
Since our launch a year ago, we’ve added many new features, saved our customers hours every day, and reaffirmed our conviction that we’re solving an expensive problem for software development teams.

September 24, 2024

Customer stories

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Cribl: “Unblocked is our number one tool for finding the information we should know but don’t.”
Cribl’s remote-first culture empowers its employees with flexibility, but keeping over 100 engineers on the same page across time zones poses a real challenge. That’s why the team turned to Unblocked.

September 20, 2024

Releases

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Connecting your code no matter where it lives
Unblocked now supports connecting to multiple source code systems at the same time. You and your team can get answers from any repository no matter where it lives (GitHub, Bitbucket, or GitLab).

September 17, 2024

Customer stories

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Drata: “Our team saves 1 to 2 hours per engineer each day with Unblocked”
Drata’s distributed engineering team relies on Unblocked to get the answers about their codebase. With Unblocked, issues get resolved faster, tasks are completed sooner, and projects go more smoothly.

August 14, 2024

Perspectives

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Your new developer feels like a fraud. It's your onboarding process.
New engineers face a tough learning curve, navigating a new role and a complex codebase. It’s no wonder they feel like imposters. We need to reimagine onboarding to better support them.

July 2, 2024

Releases

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Answers, right at your fingertips, with the new Unblocked macOS app
The new Unblocked mac app provides a centralized place to ask questions, get answers, and view your past queries.

June 5, 2024

Shop talk

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HTTPS Reverse Tunnel, now without the pain and cost
chiSSL is a new, lightweight version of chisel that allows you to expose any local server running on your development machine to the internet with a valid SSL certificate, all via a single command.

May 22, 2024

Releases

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Faster responses, better answers about your projects and issues, role-based permissions, and more
A number of new features are now available in Unblocked, helping you and your team get the answers you need about your codebase.

April 2, 2024

Releases

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Unblocked IDE plugins now in the marketplace
Download the Unblocked plugin for Visual Studio Code and JetBrains IDE’s such as IntelliJ, WebStorm, PyCharm and more.

February 28, 2024

Releases

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Support for Google Drive, better answers for PRs and more
Import Google Drive documents, improved Pull Request Questions and Answers, Team member overview, Support for Open Source Projects,Suggested Follow-ups Stick Around and more.

February 13, 2024

Releases

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IDE improvements and support for all sized teams
We’re improving how you ask questions, discover relevant documents / threads / bugs.... and making this available to everyone.

February 2, 2024

Shop talk

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Saving time and money with self-hosted runners on EC2 on-demand / spot instances
We created a custom GitHub Action that automatically deploys self-hosted ephemeral runners to EC2 using Spot or On-Demand instances.

October 3, 2023

Company

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“Get Unblocked”
Today we're publicly launching Unblocked, a new developer tool that increases your productivity by providing helpful and accurate answers to questions about your codebase.