The Bike Shed
Episodes
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128: And Now for My Next Trick!
October 19th, 2017 | 45 mins 46 secs
We discuss strategies for fighting back against project management overhead, refactoring workflows, and on-call rotations.
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127: Bike Shed: Discovery
October 13th, 2017 | 52 mins 42 secs
We discuss Bundler warning us to update to a prerelease version and other recent annoyances with our favorite dependency manager. We also wonder what GitHub diff stats can tell you about your contributions to a project and when they might be a smell. Stick around post credits for some spoiler-filled chatter about the first couple episodes of Star Trek: Discovery.
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126: Speaking of Compilers...
October 5th, 2017 | 35 mins 25 secs
We discuss a major change to Diesel's insert statements in advance of its 1.0 release and reexamine Contracts.ruby after Derek spends some time with it in use.
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125: Less Bad Than Expected
September 28th, 2017 | 44 mins 19 secs
We share and discuss some user feedback on fakes and mocks, discuss the benefits and drawbacks to FactoryGirl and share exasperation over the handling of the Equifax data breach.
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124: Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.
September 20th, 2017 | 41 mins 56 secs
We go inside the RubyConf CFP review process before turning our attention to questions about the impact of code review. Stick around post credits for some spoiler-filled, lukewarm Game of Thrones takes.
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123: Too Many Parameters
September 13th, 2017 | 33 mins 45 secs
Derek and Sean discuss the troubles encountered when code reuse is a goal above all others and strategies to have your reusable cake and eat it too.
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122: Name That Smell
September 5th, 2017 | 41 mins 4 secs
Derek and Sean discuss going from zero to code on new projects, writing tests that deal with external services, and a tricky floating point precision bug Sean encountered in ActiveRecord.
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121: The Bike Log (Jerod Santo)
August 21st, 2017 | 43 mins 47 secs
The Changelog's Jerod Santos joins the show to talk finding time for, sustaining, and funding open source development.
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120: Free Apples
August 3rd, 2017 | 36 mins 23 secs
We do some follow-up on open source fundraising and discuss some interesting patterns in Derek's new client project.
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119: Questions Are For the Weak (Caleb Thompson & Matt Mongeau)
July 26th, 2017 | 51 mins 23 secs
Sean and Derek are joined by Caleb Thompson and Matthew Mongeau for our annual live episode to discuss lessons learned from past projects, and speaking at conferences.
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118: Nonsense In, Nonsense Out
July 18th, 2017 | 45 mins 22 secs
We discuss the economics of remote work, ActionDispatch::SystemTest in RSpec, and the use of Patreon on open source projects.
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117: S.A.L.T. (Justin Searls)
July 10th, 2017 | 46 mins 4 secs
We chat with Justin Searls about testing, programmer personality types, programming communities, and putting spreadsheets on the Internet.
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116: A More "WALL-E" Future
June 28th, 2017 | 36 mins 17 secs
Amanda is joined by SF thoughtbot developers Tony, Josh, & Greg to discuss learning new languages (and whether developers should do that in their free time), machine learning, the future of AR/VR, and tech that strives to make a social difference.
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115: I Don't Need Another Google Hangout (Cecy Correa)
June 22nd, 2017 | 42 mins 57 secs
We talk with Cecy Correa about how to hire and get hired.
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114: Reasonably Thread Safe
June 16th, 2017 | 39 mins 15 secs
We discuss a tiny DOS caused when upgrading thoughtbot.com to Rails 5.1 and how Rails could better surface warnings that only occur in your production configuration. We also get an update on multi-table joins in Rust.
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113: Have You Considered Rust? (Matt Casper)
June 9th, 2017 | 29 mins 7 secs
We talk to Matt Casper about contributing to Diesel, Rust's ecosystem, and the next big thing.