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

  • 84: Why Are Manhole Covers Round?

    October 19th, 2016  |  50 mins 42 secs

    What do we look for when reviewing job applications, interviewing candidates, and pairing with prospective co-workers?

  • 83: Canadian Halloween

    October 12th, 2016  |  27 mins 37 secs

    Sean encounters a roadblock in updating Diesel to use Rust’s new soon-to-be-stabilized procedural macros. Derek and Sean discuss the most recent CVE filed for Bundler, which is a lot like the previous CVE filed for Bundler.

  • 82: I Just Want a Dog in a Spacesuit

    October 5th, 2016  |  50 mins 51 secs

    We discuss the problems with getting a CVE and the new lightning fast search tool, ripgrep. Sandwiched between those topics, we dive into the colonization of Mars. Yes, that's right, Mars.

  • 81: Is This Really a CVE?

    September 28th, 2016  |  27 mins 21 secs

    Derek and Sean talk through how to handle a security vulnerability that was reported for Clearance, a user authentication library.

  • 80: Back to the Futures

    September 21st, 2016  |  39 mins

    What's appropriate for a web middleware stack to provide? Does Rack do too much? Plus, our thoughts on NeoVim and Vim 8.

  • 79: Comments in Your Queries

    September 14th, 2016  |  41 mins 18 secs

    Derek and Sean talk through some complex SQL before they examine the calluses developed from years of writing software on OS X.

  • 78: I'm an Adult and I Choose Java

    September 9th, 2016  |  50 mins 11 secs

    Sean and Amanda discuss the state of Android Development in 2016. Java, Kotlin, Dependency Injection, and Functional Reactive Programming, oh my!

  • 77: The Floors Are Not Zero Indexed

    August 31st, 2016  |  32 mins 52 secs

    How can you get your open source pull request merged?

  • 76: The One With Laila & Brenda

    August 17th, 2016  |  40 mins 58 secs

    Between thoughtbot's Summer Summit and Sean's vacation, we are sadly without a new episode this week. However, we would love you all to check out thoughtbot's newest podcast, interviewing inspirational designers, developers, and other makers in tech, The Laila & Brenda Show!

    Give their latest episode a listen here, and if you like it subscribe to their feed however you listen to podcasts!

  • 75: I'm Not Sure That's Better

    August 11th, 2016  |  33 mins 49 secs

    Derek and Sean discuss hunting down intermittently failing tests, finding unused code in your application, and why you should never ever change your test framework.

  • 74: A Dip in the Connection Pool

    August 3rd, 2016  |  34 mins 48 secs

    We talk through design considerations for a user-visible custom query builder for a high volume ecommerce system.

  • 73: Probably In My Other Pants

    July 28th, 2016  |  43 mins 31 secs

    We discuss Pokémon Go and what its success might mean for software developers before Sean lays out his case for replacing the pg gem and libpq.

  • 72: Surprises Cut For Time (Aaron Patterson)

    July 20th, 2016  |  43 mins 28 secs

    Aaron Patterson joins us from RailsConf for puns, performance improvements in Ruby, and AirDropping cats.

  • 71: It's a Total Hack

    July 13th, 2016  |  42 mins 25 secs

    Inspired by Nickolas Means’ fantastic RailsConf keynote, we discuss the corollaries between Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works projects and our software development projects.

  • 70: Make Small Things (Sandi Metz)

    July 6th, 2016  |  1 hr 4 mins

    Sandi Metz joins us live from RailsConf to talk about the rules, the trouble with naming things, making the right kinds of errors, and conference speaking.

    A big thanks to everyone who came out to our live show! A video version of this episode is available on the thoughtbot YouTube Page.

  • 69: No More Drills

    June 29th, 2016  |  40 mins 31 secs

    We discuss thoughtbot's increasing use of Elixir and Phoenix and what that means for our Rails work before diving into what's new in Elixir 1.3 and Ecto 2.0.