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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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169: Fear Driven Development

The Bike Shed ·

2018/09/07

Chris is joined by Kane Baccigalupi, development director from thoughtbot's San Francisco office to discuss Kane's history in government working for 18F and California State and how those experiences have informed Kane's work since. Throughout the conversation Chris and Kane discuss their shared desire to hide all implementation details and their love of Ruby for how it allows us to do that, testing vs test driven development, and approaches for refactoring large untested systems. 18F - A

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42:19

168: An Escape Rope of Learning

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2018/08/31

Chris is joined by Rachel Mathew to discuss Rachel's recent experiences with Scala on a handful of client and side projects. They discuss the benefits of working within a type system, learning to work with a compiler, and the process of getting to know a new language and paradigm. Along they way they dip into the complexity of twitter as a platform for discussion and making improvements to development workflows. Scala Scala implicits Kotlin Four stages of competence Scala Play - Full-featured Scala

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43:36

167: I Feel Like We Should've Solved This By Now

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2018/08/24

Chris is joined by German Velasco for a discussion ranging from German's recent transition to remote working to the wonders of the Elixir language and the Erlang platform, blockchain, Ethereum, TypeScript, the Language Server Protocol, and more! tmate - shared terminal sessions via a special build of tmux Sneak - Human contact for remote teams (persistent video chat for teams) Ryan Tomayko - Your team should work like an open source project - great post with actionable advice for teams adopting the

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37:17

166: Are Services the New Rewrite?

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2018/08/10

Chris & Derek discuss the world of services, exploring the various forms SOA can take, the oft stated benefits, and some of the pitfalls they commonly see in the wild. The discussion ranges from alternative architectures, guidelines for how to think about services within your platform, and even includes an anecdote about thoughtbot's foray into the world of SOA on Upcase. Things You Should Never Do, Part I The Entity Service Antipattern The Past, Present, and Future of GraphQL Native - Nick

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40:33

165: The Tables Have Turned

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2018/08/03

Chris & Derek talk about beginnings and ends, borrowing from their consulting mindset for a conversation spanning CI, deployment, communication, team structure, and everything in between. bin/setup ActiveStorage confi on heroku Rails encrypted "Credentials" 12 Factor App Semisonic- Closing Time Suspenders changes moving to per-topic generators Ruby bug Methods with more than 32 keyword arguments with default values have some of the arguments set to default despite being passed

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47:08

164: A Piece of My Identity

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2018/07/27

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38:59

163: Insert Some Colons For Me

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2018/07/20

After Sean confronts some breaking changes to Diesel, we discuss what we like about Visual Studio Code and how changing your tools can change your perspective. Visual Studio Code Language Server Protocol Vim-LSP Seamlessly Navigate Vim and tmux Splits rcm: rc file (dotfile) management Add facility for syncing VSCode extensions How to exit the Vim editor? Have you evaluated your toolchain recently? Tuple

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42:17

162: You Have Ruined Your Rails App (Sam Phippen)

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2018/07/13

Sam Phippen joins us to discuss the maintenance burden of supporting old Rubies, service oriented architecture, and explorations of GraphQL and graph databases. Sam Phippen on Twitter RFC: rspec-rails versioning strategy Mix deps documentation NP-hardness bundle update --conservative docs Use create_or_find_by to avoid race condition in Rails 6.0 Dgraph — A Distributed, Fast Graph Database 100: Nouns You Can Verb | The Bike Shed - Sam's previous discussion of GRPC on the podcast PostgreSQL: WITH

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39:50

161: Re-Incoherence

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2018/07/06

Rails performance, rebalancing coherence, and themes from career advice requests. Jeff Atwood on Rails performance An analysis of memory bloat in Active Record 5.2 134: Fastributes | The Bike Shed 17: Railing About Performance (Sam Saffron) | The Bike Shed Re-Rebalancing Coherence

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47:31

160: Praise Hands Emoji 🙌 (Vaidehi Joshi)

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2018/06/29

We're joined by Vaidehi Joshi to discuss her multimedia empire, conference talk prep, getting started with computer science, and the applicability of a computer science education in every day development work. We wrap the episode with live Q&A from our RailsConf audience. Vaidehi Joshi on Twitter Base CS – The Blog Posts Base CS - The Podcast Base CS - The Video Series RailsConf 2018: Re-graphing The Mental Model of The Rails Router by Vaidehi Joshi Deckset for Mac: Presentations from

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23:39

159: Confusing and Hard to Use

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2018/06/22

An ORM that's a pleasure to use with raw SQL when needed? Sean discusses how that can be. Plus, Derek shares a new and exciting way for migrations to break! Diesel v1.3.0 RailsConf 2018: Up And Down Again: A Migration's Tale by Derek Prior ActiveSupport::Inflector

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47:01

158: This is How I Ruin Meetings (Aaron Patterson)

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2018/06/15

We're joined by Aaron Patterson for puns. Aaron also updates us on compacting GC for Ruby and Ruby 2.6's JIT compiler before telling us how he really feels about functional programming. Aaron Patterson (@tenderlove) on Twitter Parkinson's Law of Triviality (The Bike Shed Effect) Cargo Cult Building a Compacting GC for MRI by Aaron Patterson Allison McMillan on Twitter CAR and CDR Honeypot The method JIT compiler for Ruby 2.6 Closing Keynote by Aaron Patterson Opening Keynote: FIXME by David

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42:12

157: Whiz-Bangy Frontend Thing (Chris Toomey)

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2018/06/08

Chris Toomey joins Derek to talk about their shared experience in Elm and their excitement about GraphQL. Chris on Twitter The Reader Monad — Part 1 Kind (type theory) Monads are like burritos Scala.js GraphQL | A query language for your API Tell Me When it Closes RailsConf 2017: In Relentless Pursuit of REST by Derek Prior Jobs at thoughtbot graphiql

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41:04

156: It's a Commercial Enterprise (Olivier Lacan)

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2018/06/01

We speak with Olivier Lacan about KeepAChangelog.com, tooling improvements for better developer experience, and the emotional impact of shutting down CodeSchool.com Keep a Changelog RubyGems Specification Reference Why Won't Bundle Update? bundler-stats The Life and Death of a Rails App by Olivier Lacan Online Learning Service Pluralsight Acquires Code School For $36 Million Human Errors by Olivier Lacan Log the original call site for an ActiveRecord query Olivier on Twitter

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44:09

155: Abstractions on Abstractions (Alex Sullivan)

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2018/05/25

Amanda is joined by Alex Sullivan, Android developer at thoughtbot, to discuss the state of React Native and its new competitor from Google, Flutter. Flutter - Beautiful native apps in record time WTFs per minute Kotlin/Native thoughtbot's BART sign React Native at Instagram Xamarin Jake Whorton I/O Talk I/O: how to smartly use Fragments in your UI I/O: what's new in Architecture Components I/O: What's new in Android

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41:07

154: We All Have Work to Do (Eileen Uchitelle)

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2018/05/18

Eileen Uchitelle joins us live from RailsConf to talk about exciting improvements coming to Rails 6, problems encountered by larger Rails apps, strategies for upgrading Rails and more! Eileen on Twitter The Future of Rails 6: Scalable by Default - Eileen's RailsConf Keynote The Bike Shed #22: No Capes! (Eileen Uchitelle) ActiveSupport::PerThreadRegistry Parallel Tests Test Queue DatabaseCleaner LHM: Online MySQL schema migrations GH-ost: GitHub's Online Schema Migrations for

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36:42

153: 🎶 I Would Lose 3,000 Crates, and I Would Lose...

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2018/05/11

Is the bug in Postgres? Sean takes over operations of crates.io and keeps himself very busy. We also wrap up our experience at RailsConf. Logical Replication in PostgreSQL 10 Heroku Error Codes: H12 Materialized view Run a query with a LIMIT/OFFSET and also get the total number of rows ActiveRecord: retrieving records in batches See open positions at thoughtbot! Become a Sponsor of The Bike Shed!

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152: I Look For Stories (Nickolas Means)

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2018/05/04

We catch up with Nick Means at RailsConf and discuss storytelling, "human error", advice for job seekers, and the idea of licensing software developers. Nick on Twitter The Bike Shed #71: It's a Total Hack - Our earlier episode discussing Nick's previous keynote at RailsConf Skunk Works by Nickolas Means Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters Retro Report | Go or

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35:11

151: Scheming About Schema

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2018/04/27

Derek & Sean discuss their final preparations for RailsConf, the role of Diesel's schema.rs is in comparison to schema.rb in Rails, and how Derek took down production. The American Chopper meme, explained PaperCall.io Diesel schema in depth

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47:27

150: I Fight For the Users

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2018/04/13

Derek and Sean discuss ethical concerns in software development and the prospect of licensing software developers. XFINITY Data Usage Center Reply All: A Pirate in Search of a Judge Design’s Lost Generation Cambridge Analytica scandals, explained Blogger Bobbie Duncan Recalls Getting Outed Accidentally On Facebook Tesla Criticized for Blaming Autopilot Death on Model X Driver Self-Driving Mercedes-Benzes Will Prioritize Occupant Safety over Pedestrians GDPR The Bike Shed at RailsConf 2018

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