The Bike Shed
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
447 episodes of The Bike Shed since the first episode, which aired on October 31st, 2014.
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159: Confusing and Hard to Use
June 22nd, 2018 | 23 mins 39 secs
An ORM that's a pleasure to use with raw SQL when needed? Sean discusses how that can be. Plus, Derek shares a new and exciting way for migrations to break!
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158: This is How I Ruin Meetings (Aaron Patterson)
June 15th, 2018 | 47 mins 1 sec
We're joined by Aaron Patterson for puns. Aaron also updates us on compacting GC for Ruby and Ruby 2.6's JIT compiler before telling us how he really feels about functional programming.
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157: Whiz-Bangy Frontend Thing (Chris Toomey)
June 8th, 2018 | 42 mins 12 secs
Chris Toomey joins Derek to talk about their shared experience in Elm and their excitement about GraphQL.
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156: It's a Commercial Enterprise (Olivier Lacan)
June 1st, 2018 | 41 mins 4 secs
We speak with Olivier Lacan about KeepAChangelog.com, tooling improvements for better developer experience, and the emotional impact of shutting down CodeSchool.com
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155: Abstractions on Abstractions (Alex Sullivan)
May 25th, 2018 | 44 mins 9 secs
Amanda is joined by Alex Sullivan, Android developer at thoughtbot, to discuss the state of React Native and its new competitor from Google, Flutter.
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154: We All Have Work to Do (Eileen Uchitelle)
May 18th, 2018 | 41 mins 7 secs
Eileen Uchitelle joins us live from RailsConf to talk about exciting improvements coming to Rails 6, problems encountered by larger Rails apps, strategies for upgrading Rails and more!
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153: 🎶 I Would Lose 3,000 Crates, and I Would Lose 12,000 More 🎶
May 11th, 2018 | 36 mins 42 secs
Is the bug in Postgres? Sean takes over operations of crates.io and keeps himself very busy. We also wrap up our experience at RailsConf.
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152: I Look For Stories (Nickolas Means)
May 4th, 2018 | 31 mins 13 secs
We catch up with Nick Means at RailsConf and discuss storytelling, "human error", advice for job seekers, and the idea of licensing software developers.
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151: Scheming About Schema
April 27th, 2018 | 35 mins 11 secs
Derek & Sean discuss their final preparations for RailsConf, the role of Diesel's
schema.rsis in comparison toschema.rbin Rails, and how Derek took down production. -
150: I Fight For the Users
April 13th, 2018 | 47 mins 27 secs
Derek and Sean discuss ethical concerns in software development and the prospect of licensing software developers.
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149: E With an Umlaut
April 6th, 2018 | 33 mins 26 secs
Sean experiences a frustrating Ruby bug while building tooling to enforce module boundaries in Shopfiy's monolith. Derek deprecates Rails functionality instead of preparing his talk.
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148: Baseball is a Legacy App
March 30th, 2018 | 36 mins 48 secs
Amanda and Sean discuss Flutter, modeling the game of baseball, and the state of persistence and networking in Android.
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147: Is a Lambda a Sandwich?
March 23rd, 2018 | 34 mins 58 secs
Derek shares his experiences with new features in Ruby 2.5 before we turn our ire towards daylight savings time and timezones once more.
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146: --YOLO
March 16th, 2018 | 29 mins 54 secs
Amanda, Derek, and Sean discuss style guides, automated code formatting, and the cycle of disillusionment in development work.
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145: The Internet is Ruined
March 9th, 2018 | 35 mins 56 secs
Derek and Sean commiserate about the latest generation of MacBooks, Slack, and the state of the Web.
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144: Fisher Priceâ„¢ Tools
March 2nd, 2018 | 29 mins 4 secs
We talk about everyone's favorite Fisher-Price web framework and a small upcoming change to it before pivoting to discuss Derek's experience with his first Elm PR.