Aji Slater

508: The Wonders of Static Analysis

September 29th, 2026  |  Season 3  |  42 mins 31 secs

Aji and Joël dive into the distrust around the phrase ‘programmer discipline’, why you cannot just rely on willpower, and how Static Analysis tools can help with not crossing boundaries.

507: Stacked Vertical Slices

September 15th, 2026  |  Season 3  |  44 mins 34 secs

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!

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.

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.

498: Season 2 Recap

March 17th, 2026  |  Season 2  |  37 mins 23 secs

Our hosts come together to wrap up season 2 and share some of their highlights along the way.

497: Diagrams we love

March 10th, 2026  |  Season 2  |  41 mins 46 secs

Aji and Joël get into a flow as they discuss the different diagrams that help guide their thought processes when working.

495: A shortcut to years of experience

February 24th, 2026  |  Season 2  |  34 mins 13 secs

Sally and Aji flick through thoughtbot’s guide to best practices in a bid to brush up on their coding habits.

492: Defining value within your team

February 3rd, 2026  |  Season 2  |  32 mins 52 secs

Sally and Aji assess some common metrics for success when working a project and how they may not always provide the clearest picture of how things are going.

491: Influences that shaped our thinking

January 27th, 2026  |  Season 2  |  40 mins 16 secs

Joël and Aji reference their personal bibliographies as they compare the different influences that have shaped their programmer world view.

490: Large Language Misadventure

January 20th, 2026  |  Season 2  |  41 mins 4 secs

Aji and Sally sit down to dissect the complicated beast that is AI.

488: The Playful Portland Programming Paradigm

January 6th, 2026  |  Season 2  |  30 mins 47 secs

Aji and Joël talk all things hackerthons and why taking the time to have a little having fun with your work every now and then is important for developers.

486: ActiveModel Everywhere

December 23rd, 2025  |  Season 2  |  27 mins 11 secs

Aji and Sally join forces to discuss the different ways they utilise active models in their workflows.

485: HTTP Basic Auth

December 16th, 2025  |  Season 2  |  40 mins 49 secs

Joël and Aji kick off a new season by discussing the best use cases for HTTP basic auth and talking all things security.