The Bike Shed
Episodes
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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.
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49: A More Practical Haskell
January 27th, 2016 | 34 mins 40 secs
How can an ORM be faster than a SQL String? Laila and Sean discuss the latest happenings in Diesel and why it is that a systems language needs an ORM, anyway.
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48: Is Everyone Trying Their Best?
January 21st, 2016 | 34 mins 44 secs
Software is broken. In this episode, Derek and Sean discuss why exactly it's broken, and what we can do to make it better.
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47: Star Wars Oranges
January 13th, 2016 | 54 mins 12 secs
Ruby 2.3 is out! What are we looking forward to trying and what do we think of
&.andtry? Stick around after the credits for spoiler-filled discussion of Star Wars: The Force Awakens -
46: Don't Breathe, Save the Planet
January 6th, 2016 | 34 mins 14 secs
We discuss the maintenance burden of ActionCable and its dependencies on Rails 5, follow-up on Scenic issues, and discuss implementing migrations anew in Diesel.
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45: I Think I'd Prefer An Error to Nonsense
December 23rd, 2015 | 47 mins 57 secs
Derek shipped Scenic 1.0, which spurs a conversation about semantic versioning and the value of the 1.0 milestone. We discuss what the bar for breaking changes in a library should be and look at some specific changes on tap for Scenic and whether they will or should carry a major version bump.
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44: It Won't Crash... It Might Crash
December 17th, 2015 | 47 mins 29 secs
Sean has shipped early versions of Diesel, an ORM for Rust! We discuss its semantic versioning, the ergonomics of use versus the complexities of implementation, early issues with the API and the road to Diesel 1.0.
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43: That's DOCTOR Internet Technologist
December 9th, 2015 | 50 mins 43 secs
We talk about lessons learned from teachable moments both in the moment and decades later.
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42: That's Incredibly Ambitious (Grayson Wright)
December 2nd, 2015 | 37 mins 32 secs
We speak to Grayson Wright about building Administrate, an open source Rails framework for administrative interfaces. What makes Administrate different than existing solutions and what are the challenges in maintaining high-level dependencies.