The Bike Shed

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

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

  • 123: Too Many Parameters

    September 13th, 2017  |  33 mins 45 secs

    Derek and Sean discuss the troubles encountered when code reuse is a goal above all others and strategies to have your reusable cake and eat it too.

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    122: Name That Smell

    September 5th, 2017  |  41 mins 4 secs

    Derek and Sean discuss going from zero to code on new projects, writing tests that deal with external services, and a tricky floating point precision bug Sean encountered in ActiveRecord.

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    121: The Bike Log (Jerod Santo)

    August 21st, 2017  |  43 mins 47 secs

    The Changelog's Jerod Santos joins the show to talk finding time for, sustaining, and funding open source development.

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    120: Free Apples

    August 3rd, 2017  |  36 mins 23 secs

    We do some follow-up on open source fundraising and discuss some interesting patterns in Derek's new client project.

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    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.