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