The Bike Shed

About the show

On The Bike Shed, hosts Joël Quenneville and Stephanie Minn discuss development experiences and challenges at thoughtbot with Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and whatever else is drawing their attention, admiration, or ire this week.

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Episodes

  • 119: Questions Are For the Weak (Caleb Thompson & Matt Mongeau)

    July 26th, 2017  |  51 mins 23 secs

    Sean and Derek are joined by Caleb Thompson and Matthew Mongeau for our annual live episode to discuss lessons learned from past projects, and speaking at conferences.

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    118: Nonsense In, Nonsense Out

    July 18th, 2017  |  45 mins 22 secs

    We discuss the economics of remote work, ActionDispatch::SystemTest in RSpec, and the use of Patreon on open source projects.

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    117: S.A.L.T. (Justin Searls)

    July 10th, 2017  |  46 mins 4 secs

    We chat with Justin Searls about testing, programmer personality types, programming communities, and putting spreadsheets on the Internet.

  • 116: A More "WALL-E" Future

    June 28th, 2017  |  36 mins 17 secs

    Amanda is joined by SF thoughtbot developers Tony, Josh, & Greg to discuss learning new languages (and whether developers should do that in their free time), machine learning, the future of AR/VR, and tech that strives to make a social difference.

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    115: I Don't Need Another Google Hangout (Cecy Correa)

    June 22nd, 2017  |  42 mins 57 secs

    We talk with Cecy Correa about how to hire and get hired.

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    114: Reasonably Thread Safe

    June 16th, 2017  |  39 mins 15 secs

    We discuss a tiny DOS caused when upgrading thoughtbot.com to Rails 5.1 and how Rails could better surface warnings that only occur in your production configuration. We also get an update on multi-table joins in Rust.

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    113: Have You Considered Rust? (Matt Casper)

    June 9th, 2017  |  29 mins 7 secs

    We talk to Matt Casper about contributing to Diesel, Rust's ecosystem, and the next big thing.

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    112: Lifecycles Are Dead, Long Live Lifecycles!

    June 1st, 2017  |  33 mins 21 secs

    Amanda joins Sean to discuss all the Android news to come out of Google I/O, Kotlin as a "first class language", and features of Android "O"!

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    111: Trike Shed (Aaron Patterson)

    May 25th, 2017  |  31 mins 14 secs

    We talk with Aaron Patterson about Ruby and Rails upgrades, and the goal of making Ruby 3 three times faster than Ruby 2.

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    110: Green Chips

    May 18th, 2017  |  32 mins 43 secs

    What’s the deal with green potato chips? Also: RailsConf wrap up and an AST pass refactor for Diesel.

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    109: The Final Countdown

    April 26th, 2017  |  32 mins 48 secs

    Follow up about Service Objects and Computer Engineering. Plus, RailsConf prep, code slide woes, and modal pop-ups.

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    108: Have You Tried Rebooting?

    April 18th, 2017  |  41 mins 26 secs

    Is your operating system hosed? That might be related to Rails! We also chat about the trend towards compiled languages.

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    107: "Composition" Over Inheritance

    April 14th, 2017  |  52 mins 50 secs

    Single table inheritance, polymorphic associations, state machines and service objects, oh my!

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    106: Nerd Sniping (Chris Toomey)

    April 5th, 2017  |  46 mins 21 secs

    Chris Toomey joins to talk about Tell Me When It Closes, Haskell, and GraphQL.

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    105: For Display Purposes Only

    March 30th, 2017  |  46 mins 51 secs

    Complexity vs Functionality, Validations vs Database Constraints, plus whatever a Cap'n Proto is.

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    104: It's Dangerous to Refactor Alone!

    March 23rd, 2017  |  42 mins

    Google's carrot-and-stick HTTPS policies and how playing The Legend of Zelda is like refactoring.