The Bike Shed

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

459 episodes of The Bike Shed since the first episode, which aired on October 31st, 2014.

  • 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.rs is in comparison to schema.rb in Rails, and how Derek took down production.

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    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.

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    143: It's Hard to Have a Secret Rocket

    February 16th, 2018  |  31 mins 40 secs

    We chat about the Falcon Heavy launch before discussing a couple of issues Derek encountered when upgrading to Rails 5.2

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    142: What if We Didn't Do Any of This?

    February 9th, 2018  |  42 mins

    Derek and Sean debate the value provided by database migrations written in your programming language of choice versus those written in SQL.

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    141: Go Baby, Go

    February 1st, 2018  |  31 mins 11 secs

    We discuss the challenges in parallelizing development work and also take a look at what's coming soon in Rails 5.2.

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    140: A Sign of... Stability?

    January 25th, 2018  |  43 mins 1 sec

    Sean and Derek argue the semantics of versioning and opine for automated reporting on more structured changelogs as a feature of future package managers.