Aji Slater
Co-Host of The Bike Shed
Aji Slater has hosted 21 Episodes.
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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
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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484: The Season 1 Recap
November 25th, 2025 | Season 1 | 36 mins 15 secs
Our Bike Shed trio check back in with one another to follow up on some topics that caught their attention over the course of season 1.
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480: The President's Doctor with Jared Turner
October 28th, 2025 | Season 1 | 33 mins 3 secs
Aji gets their priorities straight as they talk with fellow thoughtboter Jared Turner about his recent article titled The President’s Doctor.
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479: Hardly Strictly Remotely In-Person
October 21st, 2025 | Season 1 | 33 mins 42 secs
Aji and Sally set out to crack the problems surrounding remote working as they share their thoughts on the various aspect of working from home.