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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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33:26

149: E With an Umlaut

The Bike Shed ·

2018/04/06

Sean experiences a frustrating Ruby bug while building tooling to enforce module boundaries in Shopfiy's monolith. Derek deprecates Rails functionality instead of preparing his talk. TracePoint documentation Unicode Normalization Forms Buildkite Struct inheritance is overused Deprecate controller level force_ssl XFINITY Data Usage Center — FAQ

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36:48

148: Baseball is a Legacy App

The Bike Shed ·

2018/03/30

Amanda and Sean discuss Flutter, modeling the game of baseball, and the state of persistence and networking in Android. Flutter - Beautiful native apps in record time Dart programming language Functional reactive programming (FRP) Vuforia | Augmented Reality Baseball scorekeeping Room Persistence Library OkHttp Let’s Stop Ascribing Meaning to Code Points

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34:58

147: Is a Lambda a Sandwich?

The Bike Shed ·

2018/03/23

Derek shares his experiences with new features in Ruby 2.5 before we turn our ire towards daylight savings time and timezones once more. Using yield_self for composable ActiveRecord relations What is the difference between a block, a proc, and a lambda in ruby? Ruby 2.5 prints backtrace and error message in reverse order ActiveRecord #merge Sean's Formulas Changed Timezones (The West Wing) Could New England actually change time zones? Pi Day - Wikipedia PostgreSQL Date/Time Functions and

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29:54

146: --YOLO

The Bike Shed ·

2018/03/16

Amanda, Derek, and Sean discuss style guides, automated code formatting, and the cycle of disillusionment in development work. elm-format elm-analyse Android Kotlin Style Guide Swift API Design Guidelines Do we need to move away from Elm? "Native Code" in Elm 0.19 Android Performance: Avoid using ENUM on Android

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35:56

145: The Internet is Ruined

The Bike Shed ·

2018/03/09

Derek and Sean commiserate about the latest generation of MacBooks, Slack, and the state of the Web. SoftRAM thoughtbot/laptop: A shell script to set up a macOS laptop for web and mobile development. derekprior/dotfiles Salon.com wants to use your PC to mine cryptocurrency Brave: Secure, Fast & Private Web Browser with Adblocker iOS 11 Safari View Controller cookie passthrough Purpose-built - thoughtbot Internet2

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29:04

144: Fisher Price™ Tools

The Bike Shed ·

2018/03/02

We talk about everyone's favorite Fisher-Price web framework and a small upcoming change to it before pivoting to discuss Derek's experience with his first Elm PR. RailsConf 2018 Schedule “Just an Ass-Backward Tech Company”: How Twitter Lost the Internet War James Edward Gray II on Twitter's use of Rails Use create_or_find_by to avoid race condition in Rails 6.0 Shotgun Surgery Shuttle Reference Manual kOS: Kerbal Operating System

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31:40

143: It's Hard to Have a Secret Rocket

The Bike Shed ·

2018/02/16

We chat about the Falcon Heavy launch before discussing a couple of issues Derek encountered when upgrading to Rails 5.2 Starman Double rocket landing Rails 5.2.0 RC1: Active Storage, Redis Cache Store, HTTP/2 Early Hints, CSP, Credentials Disallow raw SQL in dangerous AR methods Active Storage Overview — Ruby on Rails Guides

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42:00

142: What if We Didn't Do Any of This?

The Bike Shed ·

2018/02/09

Derek and Sean debate the value provided by database migrations written in your programming language of choice versus those written in SQL. RailsConf 2018 MySQL Automatic Updating for TIMESTAMP and DATETIME CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native SQL database. Lucky Migrations in Crystal ActiveRecord::Migration reversible ActiveRecord::Migration revert Parity: Shell commands for development, staging, and production parity for Heroku apps

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31:11

141: Go Baby, Go

The Bike Shed ·

2018/02/01

We discuss the challenges in parallelizing development work and also take a look at what's coming soon in Rails 5.2. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering Hype cycle Write once, run anywhere ActiveStorage Paperclip Rails 5.2.0 RC1 Work at thoughtbot

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43:01

140: A Sign of... Stability?

The Bike Shed ·

2018/01/25

Sean and Derek argue the semantics of versioning and opine for automated reporting on more structured changelogs as a feature of future package managers. Rust API Evolution Guide Embracing Promiscuous Gemfiles bundle outdated mix hex.outdated Keep a Changelog

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33:08

139: Red, Green, Refactor (Alex Clark & Sean Doyle)

The Bike Shed ·

2018/01/19

Derek is joined by coworker Sean Doyle and Codecademy’s Alex Clark to discuss the process of test-driven development and the development of a new TDD course for Codecademy. Testing Rails Four-Phase Test Test-Driven Development Course on Codecademy Red-Green-Refactor Chai WebdriverIO - WebDriver bindings for Node.js SuperTest - Super-agent driven library for testing node.js HTTP servers using a fluent API

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48:00

138: I Don't Know How the World Works Anymore

The Bike Shed ·

2018/01/12

We chat about how shared global state in tests can cause you to doubt foundational truths of the universe, some issues with Rails system tests, and recent changes in browser behavior. Announcing Diesel 1.0 - Congratulations to Sean and all committers. Where do Rubyists Go? Testing apps that use Geocoder PostgreSQL Mailing List Archives Respect user-set Capybara.server with Rails system tests Default Puma to non-clustered mode with Rails system tests Suspenders Chrome 63 forces .dev domains to HTTPS

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48:43

137: What's Up, Docs

The Bike Shed ·

2018/01/05

Who should library documentation be written for? How do you, as an author, know what your users will need to know? Should you have long form guides in addition to API documentation? We ask and answer these questions in the context of Sean's work to document Diesel 1.0. Stick around for the spoiler-filled after show about Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Diesel Guides Prepared Statements Diesel Documentation ActiveRecord Root Documentation

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38:23

136: Propagating Conspiracy Theories

The Bike Shed ·

2017/12/22

Amanda joins Derek to discuss KotlinConf, powerful IDEs, our Ralphapalooza hackathon, and the React Native experience from a native mobile developer's perspective. A View State Machine for Network Calls on Android - Amanda's KotlinConf talk How to Build a React App in Kotlin by Dave Ford Kotlin Static Analysis with Android Lint by Tor Norbye ReSharper: Visual Studio Extension for .NET Developers thoughtbot Trail Maps Lucky - a web framework for Crystal Frinkiac thoughtbot does screen printing The

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33:12

135: A Series of Unfortunate Examples

The Bike Shed ·

2017/12/13

We discuss a possible ActiveRecord bug Derek encountered and explore the ambiguity of SQL formatting best practices. thoughtbot podcast swag Working around ActiveRecord joining the same table twice Pagination in Crates.io ActiveRecord auto-explain removed in Rails 4.0 pgFormatter: A PostgreSQL SQL syntax beautifier How would you format this SQL query?

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31:24

134: Fastributes

The Bike Shed ·

2017/12/08

We share our favorite talks from RubyConf and discuss how Sean has made ActiveRecord attributes allocation significantly faster with Rust. Saving Ruby From the Apocalypse by Jason Charnes Esoteric, Obfuscated, Artistic Programming in Ruby by Yusuke Endoh The Impermanence of Software by Andy Croll Git Driven Refactoring by Ashley Ellis Pierce The Unbearable Vulnerability of Open Source by Eileen Uchitelle All The Great Talks from RubyConf thoughtbot Podcast Swag Sale

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31:01

133: A Very Special Bike Shed

The Bike Shed ·

2017/11/23

Sean is on to a significant ActiveRecord optimization using an extension written in Rust and Derek shares an overdue thanks to an excellent manager. Helix Fast Blank Turns out, Rails Fast Attributes might be more on the order of 2x faster! Bootsnap Do I need Database Cleaner? GraphQL Query Resolver PostGraphQL Headless Capybara! Working in Siebel… Ugh Rebecca wrote a book Upcase Crossroads

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36:52

132: What Went Well?

The Bike Shed ·

2017/11/16

We discuss patterns and anti-patterns encountered in agile retrospectives and revisit a favorite topic: form objects. Running a Retrospective Scrum Sprints Product Design Sprint Auth0 ActiveModel::Dirty Reform Ecto Changeset Lucky, an experimental new web framework by thoughtbot

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39:03

131: Nouns For Verbs Sake

The Bike Shed ·

2017/11/08

We briefly discuss the renaming of factory_girl to factory_bot before diving in to the visitor pattern; what is it, and what are its inherent tradeoffs. factory_bot visitor pattern Visitor pattern and double dispatch in ruby Sean drives for Lyft

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33:49

130: I Grew Up in Balloons

The Bike Shed ·

2017/11/03

Is Database Cleaner necessary anymore? Tune in for our exciting play-by-play reporting on that issue and stick around for chatter on personal defaults for new Rails applications. Integrate with ActionDispatch::SystemTest Database Cleaner RSpec 3.7 has been released! Bundler template moves bins to exe Suspenders Exclude all 4xx Rails errors from Sentry reporting Balloon Fiesta

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