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The Bike Shed

On The Bike Shed, hosts Joël Quenneville, Sally Hall, and Aji Slater discuss development experiences and challenges at thoughtbot with Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and whatever else is drawing their attention, admiration, or ire this week.

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41:02

249: What Would You Say You Do Here?

The Bike Shed ·

2020/06/23

On this week's episode, Steph and Chris trade some consulting and everyone comes out a winner. Steph talks about a win and a loss on the battlefield of refactoring, and Chris shares a related effort around identifying and removing unused code. Chris shares a pattern his team has been using with a special "demo" flag to provide small enhancements but otherwise keep sales demos within the product. Steph then shares some friction related to using dependabot on her team's project that hints at more

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34:16

248: Here Be Dragons

The Bike Shed ·

2020/06/16

On this week's episode, Steph shares a keyboard confession and interest in migrating to a split keyboard layout. Chris dives into creating static error pages that are independent of the app while still leveraging the app's CSS framework. They also respond to a listener question about Conventional Commits and discuss when automation tooling feels helpful vs harmful. ErgoDox EZ Keyboard (https://ergodox-ez.com/) Keyboardio Atreus (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keyboardio/atreus) Tailwind CSS

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49:28

247: Acronyms By Moonlight

The Bike Shed ·

2020/06/09

On this week's episode, Steph and Chris discuss potential approaches to a complex client-side workflow, Chris shares the highs and lows of his recent adventures revising the caching in a REST API, Steph shares an Ember testing pro-tip and then explores the questions it brings up, and lastly, they revisit prettier-ruby and it's fantastic configuration setup. This episode is brought to you by Datadog (http://datadog.com/thebikeshed). Click through to get a free 14-day trial and a free Datadog

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28:13

246: A True Movement (Pariss Athena)

The Bike Shed ·

2020/06/02

We are pausing our normal tech-talk this week in support of the ongoing protests and to re-share the #BlackTechTwitter episode with Pariss Athena from our sister podcast, Giant Robots. During the past week, millions of people across the country have participated in protests in response to the killing of George Floyd and the systemic racism that plagues our nation. For everyone fighting for equality and justice, we see you, we love you, and we support you. Black lives matter. Black culture matters

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45:17

245: Developer Therapy (German Velasco)

The Bike Shed ·

2020/05/27

On this week's episode, Steph is joined by thoughtbotter German Velasco. German and Steph chat about remote work and the rewards and challenges of their new(ish) roles as Development Team Leads. German also shares that he is writing a book! German shares his approach for defining a MVB (Minimum Viable Book), ideas for how to collect feedback, and plans for publishing. Lastly, they discuss a vim plugin that lives up to the hype. This episode is brought to you by Datadog

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40:54

244: Existential JavaScript

The Bike Shed ·

2020/05/19

On this week's episode, Steph troubleshoots a mysterious Ember test failure that can't find a visible element, and Chris recounts an exciting three-act adventure that spans N+1 queries, caching, and SQL window functions. Steph also touches on upgrading to Ember Octane and Glimmer components and Chris shares a new helpful tool for drawing architecture diagrams. Window.find() (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/find/) Dash (https://kapeli.com/dash/) Wat - Lightning talk by Gary

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40:20

243: I'm Not a Couch Worker

The Bike Shed ·

2020/05/12

On this week's episode, Chris shares his recent explorations of railway oriented programming (hint: not what you think!) while doing his best to avoid words like "monad" and "functor" (he does not succeed in this effort). Steph updates on her quest for the ultimate personal note taking app and some misadventures in DNS and networking, and they touch on their shared search for ergonomics in the home office world we all live in these days. This episode is brought to you by ExpressVPN

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41:36

242: As Few Consonants as Possible

The Bike Shed ·

2020/05/05

On this week’s episode, Chris and Steph share their excitement for Roam Research and formatting Ruby with Prettier Ruby. They also discuss writing test coverage for an important GDPR process, embracing async communication, and share their preferred strategies for knowledge sharing within teams and the broader community. Roam Research (https://roamresearch.com/) Bear (https://bear.app/) DayOne (https://dayoneapp.com/) Reveal.js (https://revealjs.com/#/) Github Draft Pull Requests

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36:39

241: What If We Just Put a Phone Number?

The Bike Shed ·

2020/04/28

On this week's episode Steph and Chris dig into MVP thinking and asking how we can write as little code as possible before finding out if any user will actually want the thing we're building. They also tackle a listener question around Vim and the general ROI on honing our developer tools, discuss some of the subtleties of HTTP and forms as well as the difficulties when half of our UI is in React and the other half Rails, and lastly chat a bit about their adaptation to full-time remote work. VS Code

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34:02

240: A Framework in Motion Tends to Stay in Motion

The Bike Shed ·

2020/04/21

On this week's episode, Chris and Steph discuss troubleshooting a race condition, trusting your intuition and pessimistic locks. They also touch briefly on TailWind CSS before diving deep into first impressions of Inertia.js. This episode is brought to you by ExpressVPN (https://www.expressvpn.com/bikeshed). Click through to get three months for free. ActiveRecord::Locking::Pessimistic#with_lock (https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Locking/Pessimistic.html#method-i-with_lock) Derek

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38:05

239: Admins All the Way Down

The Bike Shed ·

2020/04/07

On this week's episode, Steph and Chris discuss what it really means to make a project "open source". Is it just about making the code publicly available, or should we be considering licenses and responsibility to update? They also discuss the need for breaks and structure now that everyone is working from home, revisit previous discussions around building functionality for admin users and the various admin systems out there, and they round out the conversation with a discussion around doubles vs

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28:12

238: All the Single Quotes

The Bike Shed ·

2020/03/31

In this week's episode, Chris shares details about his new greenfield project, implementing static pages with high voltage, opting for just-in-time architecture decisions and working with various admin libraries. Steph discusses various ways to advocate for change across larger engineering teams, recognizing when it's important to push for change vs letting go of strong opinions, and how to gain buy-in from your team. Enroll in our free online-workshop on going remote Being Human in the Absence of

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39:18

237: I Love The Squiggles

The Bike Shed ·

2020/03/17

On this week's episode, Steph and Chris discuss the pros and cons of memoization, Chris revisits the discussion around the value of react snapshot tests as well as his continued explorations with Inertia.js while Steph updates us on living in a schema-less world, and they round out the conversation with a listener question about pairing tools, setup, and approaches. This episode is brought to you by ExpressVPN (https://www.expressvpn.com/BIKESHED). Click through to get three months for

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44:20

236: What's GNU With You?

The Bike Shed ·

2020/03/10

On this week's episode, Chris and Steph discuss recent challenges associated with upgrading React Router and uploading files to Amazon S3. Steph also shares her latest reading adventure in cybersecurity and Chris reflects on his time at thoughtbot, how his approach to web development has shifted over the past seven years, and what he plans to do next. The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll (https://amzn.to/3aqoWJM) GNU (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU) UNIX (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix) POSIX

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44:24

235: Take a Deep Breath

The Bike Shed ·

2020/03/03

On this week's episode, Steph and Chris dig into their shared love of refactoring. How do they think about it, have they ever reverted a refactor, thoughts on deferred refactoring, and more. They also discuss some positive team habits, snapshot testing, the importance of keeping your testing as close to production as possible, and finally, Chris shares some big personal news. Snapshot tests (https://jestjs.io/docs/en/snapshot-testing) styled-components (https://www.styled-components.com/) rollup

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34:10

234: No More Weird Stuff

The Bike Shed ·

2020/02/25

On this week's episode, Chris and Steph respond to a listener question about the complex tradeoffs between craft, preferences, and business needs. They also revisit Steph's recent work with mirage factories, Chris's struggles with test failures, and discuss Steph's recent use of the actsasparanoid gem. This episode is brought to you by Clubhouse (http://go.thoughtleaders.io/1658420200225). Click through to get 2 free months on any paid plan. Mirage.js (https://miragejs.com/) Creating Ember Data

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42:56

233: Software Development in Ancient Rome (Joël...

The Bike Shed ·

2020/02/18

On this week's episode, Steph is joined by Joël Quenneville. It's the season for CFPs (call for proposals) and Joël shares insights about his past conference talk submissions, both the accepted and rejected. They also discuss writing habits that help increase blogpost frequency and helping teams upgrade their Rails application. Joël's "Rolling Random Romans" talk (https://youtu.be/YxGWQdFo2Yc) Steph's "Building Compliant Health Tech Products" Workshop

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36:00

232: I'm Not Allowed to Play With Other Shells

The Bike Shed ·

2020/02/11

On this week's episode, Chris and Steph celebrate the new Bike Shed website and logo! Steph finds a new way to optimize her keyboard happiness and Chris dabbles with Zsh auto-suggestions. They also explore the team and technical trade-offs in the pursuit of clean code and respond to a listener question about building products that meet strict security policies. This episode is brought to you by Clubhouse (http://go.thoughtleaders.io/1658320200211). Click through to get 2 free months on any paid

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32:25

231: Fun and Useful

The Bike Shed ·

2020/02/04

On this week's episode, Steph shares more of her Ember adventures, specifically sharing some of her work with the Mirage API mocking and prototyping library, and her search for factories and more ergonomic data in tests. Chris shares some struggles he's had recently with automation and tooling around deployment and releasing packages, and they discuss the inherent trade-offs that we have to consider when automating anything. Lastly they touch on Twitter's alt text accessibility features, and answer

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42:19

230: The Broken Road

The Bike Shed ·

2020/01/28

On this week's episode, Chris and Steph revisit the long-lived feature branch Chris has been working on and chat about adventures with Yalc. They also dive into the common questions and concerns associated with coding bootcamps, thoughtbot's exciting new partnership with Resilient Coders, and what it would be like to "start over". This episode is brought to you by Clubhouse (http://go.thoughtleaders.io/1658220200124). Click through to get 2 free months on any paid plan. yalc

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