The Bike Shed
Episodes
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65: Free as in Puppy (Katrina Owen)
May 25th, 2016 | 45 mins 52 secs
While at RailsConf, we talk with Katrina Owen about finding metaphors for software development, the successes and mistakes of Exercism.io, and the benefits of providing code reviews.
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64: Open Mic SF
May 18th, 2016 | 55 mins 11 secs
Open Mic is back by popular demand, this time in San Francisco. We hear from developers in thoughtbot's San Francisco office about their recent investment time projects.
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63: Types Are Only Good If You Use Them
May 11th, 2016 | 38 mins 16 secs
Derek and Sean discuss some recent issues with exciting language features like pattern matching, macros, and static types.
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62: Shipping is the Fastest Way to Get Somewhere
May 4th, 2016 | 34 mins 16 secs
Sean celebrates Diesel reaching "faster than a SQL string" status before we chat about Rails 5 blockers and the clarity of focus and priorities that only shipping can bring.
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61: I'm Not Telling You My Birthday
April 27th, 2016 | 31 mins 4 secs
"Send me an email every year for my birthday" is an easy thing for a human to understand but it can be deceptively tricky to do with computers. Also tricky for (some) computers:
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60: Remote Control (Katherine Fellows)
April 20th, 2016 | 38 mins 2 secs
KF (Katherine Fellows) joins the show to chat about successful BridgeFoundry events and creating environments where remote developers, junior and otherwise, can thrive.
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59: I Wish They Wouldn't Do That
April 13th, 2016 | 40 mins 59 secs
Derek and Sean discuss the left-pad saga, how other programming communities are reacting to it, and what you should learn from it as a library or application author.
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58: Nobody Gets Fired For Buying IBM
April 6th, 2016 | 45 mins 36 secs
Should you rewrite or refactor? What should you consider as you weigh this decision and what exactly constitutes a rewrite anyway?
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57: Mutability Ruins the Whole Party (José Valim)
March 30th, 2016 | 55 mins 50 secs
We chat with José Valim about bringing light to Elixir's dark corners, the design goals of Ecto, and the future of Elixir, Ecto, and Phoenix.
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56: Most People Aren't Building Trello
March 23rd, 2016 | 38 mins 53 secs
Is ActiveRecord reinventing Sequel? If it is, does it matter? Derek and Sean discuss that and whether maybe we could all stand to tone down the JavaScript.
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55: Hot Dog is Not a Dessert
March 9th, 2016 | 40 mins 54 secs
Derek and Sean talk about their experience with the Rails 5 betas, how to test against them today, and things that you might want to look out for when updating your app.
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54: Argument Error
March 2nd, 2016 | 42 mins 25 secs
Derek shares some Elixir annoyances with Sean and they discus how a consulting role colors their perception of languages and frameworks, both for better and for worse. Sean provides an update on SQLite and Association support in Diesel.
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53: Cache Machine
February 24th, 2016 | 43 mins 28 secs
Laila and Derek go on a tour of the various caching mechanisms available to web applications in general, and Rails specifically. When is the right time to cache and at what level?
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52: You're an Elixir Developer Now
February 17th, 2016 | 46 mins 31 secs
Derek and Laila discuss Derek's excitement for Elixir and Phoenix. Is Elixir as fun to write as Ruby? Is Phoenix a better Rails?
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51: Is Sim City Running? (Steve Klabnik)
February 10th, 2016 | 43 mins 56 secs
We enjoy a wide-ranging discussion with Steve Klabnik on the importance of good documentation, the sometimes cloudy definition of a breaking change, the politics of open source contributions, and work/life balance or boundaries.
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50: Open Mic
February 3rd, 2016 | 28 mins 30 secs
It's Open Mic day at The Bike Shed. We hear from other thoughtbot designers and developers about what they're excited to be spending their investment time on lately.