The Bike Shed

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

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

  • 506: The Muppet Software Team

    July 14th, 2026  |  Season 3  |  38 mins 42 secs

    This week’s episode is a radical one, let’s Muppet-cast a software development team!

  • 505: What is a “principal” or “staff” engineer?

    July 7th, 2026  |  Season 3  |  34 mins 11 secs

    Sally and Joël join forces to discuss the different ways to interpret the role of a ‘principle’ or ‘staff’ engineer, and the handwaving around what those titles mean in terms of the gradation.

  • 504: AI Ethics (with guests!)

    June 30th, 2026  |  Season 3  |  32 mins 19 secs

    Aji is joined by thoughtbot’s own Tess Griffin and Jimmy Thigpen, to talk about what kind of conversations are going on at thoughtbot around AI

  • 503: Seeing the Graph for the Trees

    June 23rd, 2026  |  Season 3  |  41 mins 12 secs

    Aji and Joël discuss graph and tree structures, their connection to the emergent properties, attributes and qualities found from a largely connected group of data.

  • 502: Apps That Make Our Work Go

    June 16th, 2026  |  Season 3  |  40 mins 55 secs

    Aji and Sally are back together again, this time to discuss the different apps they use to make their workflows and To Do lists easier and quicker to achieve.

  • 501: What makes for good technical writing?

    June 2nd, 2026  |  Season 3  |  34 mins 27 secs

    Sally and Joël get technical as they lay out their thoughts on blog posts.

  • 500: Celebrating with past hosts

    May 26th, 2026  |  Season 3  |  58 mins 21 secs

    The Bike Shed celebrates its 500th episode with hosts new and old as they reflect on the show’s history and ask, what’s new in your world?

  • 499: BikeTube ShedTacular!

    April 28th, 2026  |  Season 3  |  48 mins 43 secs

    Take a trip through Joël and Aji’s YouTube recommended list as they go over the media that has inspired their work the most over the course of their careers.