The Bike Shed
Episodes
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112: Lifecycles Are Dead, Long Live Lifecycles!
June 1st, 2017 | 33 mins 21 secs
Amanda joins Sean to discuss all the Android news to come out of Google I/O, Kotlin as a "first class language", and features of Android "O"!
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111: Trike Shed (Aaron Patterson)
May 25th, 2017 | 31 mins 14 secs
We talk with Aaron Patterson about Ruby and Rails upgrades, and the goal of making Ruby 3 three times faster than Ruby 2.
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110: Green Chips
May 18th, 2017 | 32 mins 43 secs
What’s the deal with green potato chips? Also: RailsConf wrap up and an AST pass refactor for Diesel.
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109: The Final Countdown
April 26th, 2017 | 32 mins 48 secs
Follow up about Service Objects and Computer Engineering. Plus, RailsConf prep, code slide woes, and modal pop-ups.
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108: Have You Tried Rebooting?
April 18th, 2017 | 41 mins 26 secs
Is your operating system hosed? That might be related to Rails! We also chat about the trend towards compiled languages.
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107: "Composition" Over Inheritance
April 14th, 2017 | 52 mins 50 secs
Single table inheritance, polymorphic associations, state machines and service objects, oh my!
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106: Nerd Sniping (Chris Toomey)
April 5th, 2017 | 46 mins 21 secs
Chris Toomey joins to talk about Tell Me When It Closes, Haskell, and GraphQL.
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105: For Display Purposes Only
March 30th, 2017 | 46 mins 51 secs
Complexity vs Functionality, Validations vs Database Constraints, plus whatever a Cap'n Proto is.
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104: It's Dangerous to Refactor Alone!
March 23rd, 2017 | 42 mins
Google's carrot-and-stick HTTPS policies and how playing The Legend of Zelda is like refactoring.
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103: I Just Want to See Green Dots
March 16th, 2017 | 53 mins 2 secs
When a hash isn't a hash, GitHub as your Résumé, and porting Crates.io to Diesel.
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102: To the Moon!
March 10th, 2017 | 49 mins 57 secs
Going "to" the moon, hidden type errors in our Rails apps, the process of talk prep, and the S3 outage.
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101: Hey, You Leaned!
February 28th, 2017 | 50 mins 35 secs
Amanda and Sean discuss the evolving stages of open source projects, native apps vs web apps, and space.
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100: Nouns You Can Verb
February 24th, 2017 | 51 mins 32 secs
Sam Phippen helps us celebrate episode 100, as we discuss Diesel bugs, REST, RPC, and more.
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99: Just Sayin'
February 16th, 2017 | 46 mins 5 secs
We go into the weeds with MySQL and discuss the virtues of database migrations written in SQL.
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98: I Have Good Branch Hygiene
February 8th, 2017 | 35 mins 30 secs
We discuss complexity and progressive disclosure, garbage collection, and the impenetrable nature of Git.
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97: One Equals Zero
January 31st, 2017 | 29 mins 16 secs
We wonder why writing parameterized associations in Rails is not easy, and discuss the difficulty in eliminating no-op queries in ActiveRecord. Plus, we discuss how you can give a great RailsConf talk proposal that doesn't have anything to do with Rails.