The Bike Shed
Episodes
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471: New Hosts Join the Show
August 26th, 2025 | Season 1 | 42 mins 12 secs
Joël reveals some exciting changes to the show.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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459: Paper Data Structures with Sally Hall
April 15th, 2025 | 42 mins 20 secs
Joël and thoughtbot colleague Sally Hall set out to find an answer to the question, what exactly are the differences between paper data structures and digitals ones?
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458: Learning Typescript with Aji Slater
April 8th, 2025 | 42 mins 31 secs
Joël and fellow thoughtboter Aji Slater examine the unfamiliar world of Typescript and various ways of working within it’s system.
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457: Time Zones with Sally Hall
March 18th, 2025 | 46 mins 29 secs
Joël enlists the help of thoughtbot colleague Sally Hall as they dive into the complex world of time zones, daylight savings, measurements and coding.
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456: Typescript with Jimmy Thigpen
February 25th, 2025 | 37 mins 19 secs
Joël turns to fellow thoughtboter Jimmy Thigpen as he looks to expand his knowledge about the wide world of Typescripts.