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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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31:14

111: Trike Shed (Aaron Patterson)

The Bike Shed ·

2017/05/25

We talk with Aaron Patterson about Ruby and Rails upgrades, and the goal of making Ruby 3 three times faster than Ruby 2. Aaron Patterson DHH’s RailsConf Keynote warning: private attribute? Ruby 2.4 Rounding Changes Ruby 3x3 optcarrot: A NES Emulator for Ruby Benchmark Windows 98 Defragging

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32:43

110: Green Chips

The Bike Shed ·

2017/05/18

What’s the deal with green potato chips? Also: RailsConf wrap up and an AST pass refactor for Diesel. Green Potato Chips Baby Ruby Stickers Justin Searls - How to Program Eileen Uchitelle - Building Rails ActionDispatch::SystemTestCase Framework Alex Kitchens - Perusing the Rails Source Code - A Beginners Guide Abstract syntax tree Visitor Pattern Refactor the query builder to make it easier to add new AST passes Turn to_sql into a standard AST pass

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32:48

109: The Final Countdown

The Bike Shed ·

2017/04/26

Follow up about Service Objects and Computer Engineering. Plus, RailsConf prep, code slide woes, and modal pop-ups. Sandi Metz- Gilded Rose Kata Ben Orenstein- How to Talk to Developers Sean @ RubyConf Portugal '15- With smoke machine and intro music Google's Intrusive Pop-Up Announcement Thank you to our sponsor this week, SparkPost

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41:26

108: Have You Tried Rebooting?

The Bike Shed ·

2017/04/18

Is your operating system hosed? That might be related to Rails! We also chat about the trend towards compiled languages. RailsConf Shirts- Please only order if you will be at RailsConf to pick up! The pre-show The listen gem breaks my laptop Interpreted Language LLVM Cambrian Explosion Crystal Rob Pike on Googlers Rob Pike on the programmer prerequisites Thank you to our sponsor this week, SparkPost

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52:50

107: "Composition" Over Inheritance

The Bike Shed ·

2017/04/14

Single table inheritance, polymorphic associations, state machines and service objects, oh my! RailsConf Shirts- Please only order if you will be at RailsConf to pick up! How to Win at Monopoly and Lose All Your Friends Touchdown! SpaceX’s 1st Reused Rocket Lands on Drone Ship Little Boy Blue Single Table Inheritance Polymorphic Associations Tagged Union Canada Snoo Thank you to our sponsor this week, SparkPost

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46:21

106: Nerd Sniping (Chris Toomey)

The Bike Shed ·

2017/04/05

Chris Toomey joins to talk about Tell Me When It Closes, Haskell, and GraphQL. Chris Toomey - twitter, github Tell Me When It Closes RFactory Nerd Sniping Add an alias for reverse_merge to with_defaults “I write Haskell because I’m dumb” GraphQL GitHub GraphQL API The $500,000 mruby Relase Curl is C Thank you to our sponsor this week, SparkPost

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46:51

105: For Display Purposes Only

The Bike Shed ·

2017/03/30

Complexity vs Functionality, Validations vs Database Constraints, plus whatever a Cap'n Proto is. Second Quests in Zelda Games 5 Useful Tips For A Better Commit Message Sean’s rocket equations Atlas Rocket Family Removed deprecated mathn extentions is targeted for Ruby 2.5 Complexity and Strategy How to Build a Skyscrapper Rein - database constraints for Rails Scenic - database views for Rails Validation, Database Constraint, or Both? The Perils of Uniqueness Validations Ecto Validations and

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42:00

104: It's Dangerous to Refactor Alone!

The Bike Shed ·

2017/03/23

Google's carrot-and-stick HTTPS policies and how playing The Legend of Zelda is like refactoring. Google Will Soon Shame All Websites That Are Unencrypted HSTS Super Mario Bros. 3 right-side scroll artifacts How the Nintendo NES Zapper Worked, and Why It Doesn’t Work On HDTVs NES R.O.B reverse dependencies query Snipperclips Second Quests in Zelda Games Brickseek

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53:02

103: I Just Want to See Green Dots

The Bike Shed ·

2017/03/16

When a hash isn't a hash, GitHub as your Résumé, and porting Crates.io to Diesel. ActionController::Parameters should implement reverse_merge Expression-oriented programming language Jobs at thoughtbot Set up the groundwork for a port to Diesel Window Functions Remove the max_version column from Crates

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49:57

102: To the Moon!

The Bike Shed ·

2017/03/10

Going "to" the moon, hidden type errors in our Rails apps, the process of talk prep, and the S3 outage. SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Retro looking rendering of SLS git push && git paid Rocket My Process for Writing a Talk by Eileen Uchitelle Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region Chaos Monkey

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50:35

101: Hey, You Leaned!

The Bike Shed ·

2017/02/28

Amanda and Sean discuss the evolving stages of open source projects, native apps vs web apps, and space. AppVeyor Electron Xamarin is the Microsoft-owned cross-platform mobile application company. NASA TRAPPIST 1 Announcement Spaceflight Now Write/Speak/Code Thank you to our sponsor this week, FreshBooks

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51:32

100: Nouns You Can Verb

The Bike Shed ·

2017/02/24

Sam Phippen helps us celebrate episode 100, as we discuss Diesel bugs, REST, RPC, and more. Diesel LEFT JOINS bug Google Spanner Information Schema Standard Spanner Beta Paper HTML5 formaction Must be Willing to Relocate to San Francisco GRPC Protocol Buffers The Listen gem breaks my laptop Thank you to our sponsor this week, FreshBooks!

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46:05

99: Just Sayin'

The Bike Shed ·

2017/02/16

We go into the weeds with MySQL and discuss the virtues of database migrations written in SQL. Big and little endian mysql_real_escape_string Should we set CLIENT_IGNORE_SIGPIPE for MySQL? Why Uber Switched From Postgres to MySQL Default Primary Keys Are Now BIGINT Using reversible in migrations Gary's tweet Thank you to our sponsor this week, FreshBooks!

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35:30

98: I Have Good Branch Hygiene

The Bike Shed ·

2017/02/08

We discuss complexity and progressive disclosure, garbage collection, and the impenetrable nature of Git. Chris Lattner on Accidental Tech Podcase Simple Made Easy Garbage Collection was a feature of Objective-C 2.0 The listen gem breaks my laptop Go GC: Prioritizing low latency and simplicity Modern Garbage Collection which calls out the tradeoffs of Go's approach WebKit’s Retreating Wavefront Concurrent Garbage Collector The Joel Test Tig: text-mode interface for Git Thank you to our sponsor

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29:16

97: One Equals Zero

The Bike Shed ·

2017/01/31

We wonder why writing parameterized associations in Rails is not easy, and discuss the difficulty in eliminating no-op queries in ActiveRecord. Plus, we discuss how you can give a great RailsConf talk proposal that doesn't have anything to do with Rails. RequestStore The IDs writer patch Derek sent Sean Skunk Works by Nickolas Means It’s a Total Hack The Bike Shed episode inspired by Skunk Works Hanami Thank you to our sponsor this week, FreshBooks!

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39:26

96: Who Stinks?

The Bike Shed ·

2017/01/27

Baby Ruby, Ruby refinements, Rails discoverability, and annoying polyfills. Refinements Refinements in Rails Remove required field polyfill from Rails-UJS Safari is the New IE Safari isn't the new IE: it's the user-centric web - "Send me onesies!" Thank you to our sponsor this week, FreshBooks!

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28:35

95: Click 'Cat' to go 'Home' (Morgane Santos)

The Bike Shed ·

2017/01/20

Amanda is joined by Morgane Santos to discuss the experiences, technology, and development of Virtual Reality. VR For Burn Relief Vive Maya for Beginners GoogleVR Dev Resources GitHub Game Off Get Cardboard Gray Area Thank you to our sponsor this week, FreshBooks!

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44:08

94: It's Not Supposed to Work

The Bike Shed ·

2017/01/11

We discuss the pain of custom inputs in HTML, ActiveRecord bugs, and Rust's Fire Flower. Sean’s Haircut Select2 Query with 'exists' subquery fails to bind parameters Rocket Diesel JSON data type Rust is More Than Safety Safety is Rust’s Fire Flower Fire Flowers and Marios: Marketing Rust Thank you to our sponsor this week, FreshBooks!

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41:35

93: I Have Complex Feelings

The Bike Shed ·

2016/12/21

The impact of codes of conduct on community behavior, shipping a mobile app written in Elm, and yet more to say on SemVer. Diesel 0.9 Change Default Primary Keys to BIGINT The Rust Code of Conduct Ruby Code of Conduct issue Rails Code of Conduct thoughtbot Code of Conduct Disabling submit on invalid forms without JavaScript Purple Train Elm Native React Native Our earlier episode on Purple Train and React Native Homebrew SemVer issue

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38:22

92: The Queen of Canada

The Bike Shed ·

2016/12/16

We discuss the sneaky performance differences between present?, any?, blank? and empty? with ActiveRecord, when N+1 is a "feature", and the future of Diesel. An awesome gif Justin Trudeau’s Shopify selfie The Toonie Slow Counting in Postgres N+1 is a Feature Managing dependencies with Rails’ Russian doll caching Postgres Upsert Support The Bike Shed and other thoughtbot podcasts

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