The Bike Shed

85: Are We in a Black Hole?

October 26th, 2016  |  53 mins 13 secs

We briefly ponder the very nature of our existence before discussing edge cases and interesting bugs encountered in ActiveRecord.

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.