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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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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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41:05

91: I Think It's a Fish

The Bike Shed ·

2016/12/08

Derek briefly complains of the staleness of the asset pipeline in Rails 5, before Sean catches Derek up on Rails 5.1's support for Webpack, Yarn, and ES6. We also discuss the pain of deprecations in the upgrade to Rails 5. Can I Use: HTML 5 validations checkValidity() ESLint Rails 5.1 can use Webpack and Yarn A Tour of Rails’ jQuery UJS How Does Origin Pull Work? PaperTrail Rails 5.1 pull request A shim for Rails 5 controller tests

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35:51

90: Freedom Units

The Bike Shed ·

2016/12/01

We discuss adventures with shared mutable state in Elixir before turning to our thoughts on mocking HTTP interaction and how our approaches may differ depending on the language we’re using. How to Solve a Rubik’s Cube GenServer Agent Mocks and Explicit Contracts by José Valim VCR and exvcr actual radio buttons

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37:52

89: There Will Never Be One Right Way (Ashley Williams)

The Bike Shed ·

2016/11/23

Ashley Williams joins the show to discuss NPM, Yarn, and the general package manager ecosystem. Ashley Williams Yarn yarn install--flat Peer Dependency --override for Elixir dependencies npm shrinkwrap Clarifying the Roles of the .gemspec and Gemfile Zero One Infinity READMEs mansplain CocoaPods' impact on GitHub npmCamp 2016 Panel - Package Managers: Before and After npm Node Together A Very Brief Intro to Rust

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29:39

88: How Many Puppies Now?

The Bike Shed ·

2016/11/18

Amanda and Sean discuss talk prep and slide envy before diving in to Kotlin 1.0.5, UTF-8 identifiers in programming, and responsive layouts in Android. Expandable RecyclerViews and You - Amanda's DroidCon talk. Deckset How to Talk to Developers Is UTF-8 a Racist Kludge or Stroke of Genius? Senior Android Developer at thoughtbot in New York City Kotlin 1.0.5 Build a Responsive UI with ConstraintLayout

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32:01

87: The Refrigerator Took Down Your Website

The Bike Shed ·

2016/11/10

We talk about a widespread DNS outage and what steps you might take to avoid or limit your application's exposure to these things in the future. Deprecate the behavior of AR::Dirty inside of after_(create|update|save) callbacks Distributed Denial of Service attack on DNS Provider Dyn What is an ALIAS Record? ANAME records Why can't a CNAME record be used at the apex (aka root) of a domain? Avoid using non-standard DNS entries Is Your Site Leaking Password Reset Links? with Comments from Hacker

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30:46

86: Purple Train, Purrrple Train (Ian Anderson)

The Bike Shed ·

2016/11/02

Derek chats with Ian Anderson about developing a mobile app for iOS and Android with React Native. Ian on Twitter Purple (T)Rain GenServer Agent React Native Flow Elm Native UI React Native Web

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53:13

85: Are We in a Black Hole?

The Bike Shed ·

2016/10/26

We briefly ponder the very nature of our existence before discussing edge cases and interesting bugs encountered in ActiveRecord. Podcast Patreon Survey We May Be Living Inside a Black Hole Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? The R-7 Rocket Family Computing Glitch May Have Doomed Mars lander ActiveRecord’s from method ActiveRecord’s where.not method ActiveRecord’s WhereClause class Let’s fix deepmunge Object-relation impedance mismatch

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50:42

84: Why Are Manhole Covers Round?

The Bike Shed ·

2016/10/19

What do we look for when reviewing job applications, interviewing candidates, and pairing with prospective co-workers? thoughtbot Podcast Listener Survey Yarn: A new package manager for JavaScript About NPM Jobs at thoughtbot LAMP Stack recruitment in GitHub Issues The fruits of Derek’s FactoryGirl pairing session The Infield Fly Rule

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27:37

83: Canadian Halloween

The Bike Shed ·

2016/10/12

Sean encounters a roadblock in updating Diesel to use Rust’s new soon-to-be-stabilized procedural macros. Derek and Sean discuss the most recent CVE filed for Bundler, which is a lot like the previous CVE filed for Bundler. Diesel 0.8.0 Derive Rust Macros 1.1 CSS Support in GMail GMail REST API Bundler’s Multiple Source Security Vulnerability Bundler Response Listener Survey

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50:51

82: I Just Want a Dog in a Spacesuit

The Bike Shed ·

2016/10/05

We discuss the problems with getting a CVE and the new lightning fast search tool, ripgrep. Sandwiched between those topics, we dive into the colonization of Mars. Yes, that's right, Mars. Podcast Patreon Survey Clearance password reset fix iwantacve.org Over 6,000 vulnerabilities went unassigned by MITRE's CVE project in 2015 Handling Security Issues in Open Source Projects by Tute Costa Elon Musk unveils plan to colonise Mars SpaceX Jobs Red Dragon Spacecraft NASA Orion Major Malfunction:

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27:21

81: Is This Really a CVE?

The Bike Shed ·

2016/09/28

Derek and Sean talk through how to handle a security vulnerability that was reported for Clearance, a user authentication library. Cardboard Jankowski Prevent password reset token leak via HTTP referer The Meta Referrer Tag CVE Bundler Audit Ruby Advisory Database Ruby security announcement mailing list Destroy All Software

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39:00

80: Back to the Futures

The Bike Shed ·

2016/09/21

What's appropriate for a web middleware stack to provide? Does Rack do too much? Plus, our thoughts on NeoVim and Vim 8. Futures-RS My Life With NeoVim Vim 8 Asynchronous functions patch discussion gitsh Xi Editor Stop saying "the ____ monad"

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41:18

79: Comments in Your Queries

The Bike Shed ·

2016/09/14

Derek and Sean talk through some complex SQL before they examine the calluses developed from years of writing software on OS X. Press 1 for Lobby Ransack EXTRACT Pivot Tables crosstab Derek’s crosstab Query Window Functions Set Returning Functions Uninstall All Installed Gems on OS X

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50:11

78: I'm an Adult and I Choose Java

The Bike Shed ·

2016/09/09

Sean and Amanda discuss the state of Android Development in 2016. Java, Kotlin, Dependency Injection, and Functional Reactive Programming, oh my! Amanda Hill on Twitter Android Debug Bridge (ADB) Android Studio - The Official IDE for Android JetBrains Kotlin Tropos Weather Runes: Monadic Functions in Swift Receiving Location Updates in Android Dagger: A fast dependency injector for Android Introducing ExpandingRecyclerView RxAndroid Marial Codex

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32:52

77: The Floors Are Not Zero Indexed

The Bike Shed ·

2016/08/31

How can you get your open source pull request merged? Elevator number pad Sorry, video of Sean’s Abstractions Conference talk is not yet available Clearance PR discussion driven by contributors Module#prepend is the end of alias_method_chain - by Justin Weiss

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40:58

76: The One With Laila & Brenda

The Bike Shed ·

2016/08/17

Between thoughtbot's Summer Summit and Sean's vacation, we are sadly without a new episode this week. However, we would love you all to check out thoughtbot's newest podcast, interviewing inspirational designers, developers, and other makers in tech, The Laila & Brenda Show! Give their latest episode a listen here, and if you like it subscribe to their feed however you listen to podcasts! The Laila & Brenda Show

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33:49

75: I'm Not Sure That's Better

The Bike Shed ·

2016/08/11

Derek and Sean discuss hunting down intermittently failing tests, finding unused code in your application, and why you should never ever change your test framework. RSpec Bisect RSpec 3.3 Release Notes Git Bisect Unused The Halting Problem Diesel 0.7

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34:48

74: A Dip in the Connection Pool

The Bike Shed ·

2016/08/03

We talk through design considerations for a user-visible custom query builder for a high volume ecommerce system. Ransack Using Arel to Compose SQL Queries PgBouncer establish_connection AWS in Plain English ApartmentEx Underscore + Lodash

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43:31

73: Probably In My Other Pants

The Bike Shed ·

2016/07/28

We discuss Pokémon Go and what it's success might mean for software developers before Sean lays out his case for replacing the pg gem and libpq. Derek on Full Stack Radio The Laila and Brenda Show Google's Project Tango devices Pokemon Go gets full access Google auth token Why your email address isn't your identity The pg gem libpq SQL Server data types

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