The Bike Shed
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
453 episodes of The Bike Shed since the first episode, which aired on October 31st, 2014.
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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.
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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.
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103: I Just Want to See Green Dots
March 16th, 2017 | 53 mins 2 secs
When a hash isn't a hash, GitHub as your Résumé, and porting Crates.io to Diesel.
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102: To the Moon!
March 10th, 2017 | 49 mins 57 secs
Going "to" the moon, hidden type errors in our Rails apps, the process of talk prep, and the S3 outage.