Sally Hall
Co-Host of The Bike Shed
Sally Hall has hosted 25 Episodes.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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496: Test suite performance
March 3rd, 2026 | Season 2 | 43 mins 37 secs
Joël and Sally cover all the bases as they look at improving their test suite performances times.
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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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494: Primitive Obsession
February 17th, 2026 | Season 2 | 40 mins 41 secs
Joël and Sally examine the simpler components of programming and why using basic data structures may not always be the best approach to solving a problem.
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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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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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489: What makes a codebase welcoming
January 13th, 2026 | Season 2 | 39 mins 13 secs
Joël and Sally tidy up the place as they discuss the different ways a new codebase and team can feel welcoming to them.
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487: ActiveModel custom attributes
December 30th, 2025 | Season 2 | 37 mins 28 secs
Joël contributes some thoughts on working with custom attributes as he follows up on last week’s discussion about ActiveModels with Sally.
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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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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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483: Comparing notes on note-taking
November 19th, 2025 | Season 1 | 38 mins 57 secs
Joël and Sally compare various note taking styles as they set out to find which ones work best for them.