Joël Quenneville

476: Green Flags for Code

September 30th, 2025  |  Season 1  |  36 mins 39 secs

Joël and Sally sit down to discuss their green and red flags when it comes to PR review.

474: Board games and programming

September 16th, 2025  |  Season 1  |  41 mins 8 secs

board games, programming

It’s board game night at the Bike Shed as Joël and Aji crack out the game pieces to assess how their work as programmers influences strategy when playing some of their favourite games.

473: Mental models for browsers

September 9th, 2025  |  Season 1  |  44 mins 12 secs

Joël prepares to write his new book by asking Sally some fundamental questions about Web browsers.

472: What is the skill in software development?

September 2nd, 2025  |  Season 1  |  41 mins 26 secs

Sally and Joël kick off a new season of the Bike Shed by asking the question, what exactly is it that we as developers even do around here?

471: New Hosts Join the Show

August 26th, 2025  |  Season 1  |  42 mins 12 secs

Joël reveals some exciting changes to the show.

470: All about queues with Adam McCrea

August 19th, 2025  |  40 mins 7 secs

Joël talks with Adam McCrea, founder of Judoscale, about the best ways to manage your queues and autoscaling.

469: How are we using AI? with Jimmy Thigpen

August 12th, 2025  |  38 mins 32 secs

Joël and fellow thoughtbotter Jimmy Thigpen assess their AI workflows and question whether LLM partners really are as helpful as they claim to be.

468: RailsConf Recap with Tess Griffin

July 22nd, 2025  |  41 mins 35 secs

Joël sits down with Tess Griffin as they take a moment to recap the very last RailsConf together

467: How to get the most out of attending a conference with Matheus Richard

July 1st, 2025  |  41 mins 20 secs

Joël continues his preparations for the last RailsConf as he talks with Matheus about how to make the most of your time at the conference.

466: All about keynotes with Aji Slater

June 24th, 2025  |  43 mins 36 secs

As the final RailsConf draws near Joël and Aji Slater sit down to discuss its varied and interesting history of keynote presentations.

465: What is quality software with Elaina Natario

May 27th, 2025  |  37 mins 52 secs

Elaina Natario returns to talk with Joël about what makes good quality product design and the priorities that shape development.

464: Modelling the stars with Rémy Hannequin

May 20th, 2025  |  42 mins 59 secs

Joël and Rémy draw inspiration from the stars as they discuss Rémy’s new open source Ruby gem, Astonoby.

463: All about modals with Elaina Natario

May 13th, 2025  |  36 mins 42 secs

Joel strikes up a dialogue with fellow thoughtboter Elaina Natario about the various use cases of modals.

462: Decomposition as a key developer skill with Steve Polito

May 6th, 2025  |  42 mins 18 secs

Joël and Steve sit down to discuss the ins and outs of decomposition within their respective workflows and how they use it to their advantage when working on certain projects.

461: Writing new vs existing code with Sara Jackson

April 29th, 2025  |  42 mins 20 secs

Joël talks with fellow thoughtboter Sara about the different ways developers can help one another across the various stages of an app’s lifecycle.

460: Programer Productivity with Valerie Burzynski

April 22nd, 2025  |  36 mins 10 secs

Start taking notes in this episode as Joël and Valerie discuss the different ways in which they structure their note taking systems to improve their workflows.