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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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43:28

72: Surprises Cut For Time (Aaron Patterson)

The Bike Shed ·

2016/07/20

Aaron Patterson joins us from RailsConf for puns, performance improvements in Ruby, and AirDropping cats. Gorbypuff Virus UTF8 vs UTF16 vs UTF32 What happened to the Rails 4 queue API? Koichi talks about AOT compilation Aaron hates encoding. This isn't a link, just a fact. Sean's terrifying test script, slightly out of date rails.vim, the tpope jam

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42:25

71: It's a Total Hack

The Bike Shed ·

2016/07/13

Inspired by Nickolas Means’ fantastic RailsConf keynote, we discuss the corollaries between Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works projects and our software development projects. Sean’s DXRacer Chair Skunk Works by Nickolas Means Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Big Design Up Front Kelly’s 14 Rules and Processes Rules Made Up by You - Kelly’s rules as applied to modern software development Factory, Workshop, Stage by Sarah Mei The Tyranny of Structurelessness How to Crash an Airplane by Nickolas

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70: Make Small Things (Sandi Metz)

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2016/07/06

Sandi Metz joins us live from RailsConf to talk about the rules, the trouble with naming things, making the right kinds of errors, and conference speaking. The Bike Shed - Episode 1: Sandi and Derek's Rules Sandi Metz' Rules For Developers Sandi on the Ruby Rogues Don't Create Verb Classes Swift Proposal for Default Final GoRuCo 2009: SOLID Object-Oriented Design by Sandi Metz How to Talk to Developers by Ben Orenstein What Your Conference Proposal is Missing by Sarah Mei A big thanks to everyone

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40:31

69: No More Drills

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2016/06/29

We discuss thoughtbot's increasing use of Elixir and Phoenix and what that means for our Rails work before diving into what's new in Elixir 1.3 and Ecto 2.0. Jonathon Coulton: IKEA Derek's thoughtbot ♥️ Elixir tweet. Fuck Bullshit HTC Vive Office Simulator Demo ExMachina and Bamboo from Paul Smith Elixir 1.3 CHANGELOG Ecto 2.0 CHANGELOG Phoenix Presence

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33:09

68: Mostly Undocumented

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2016/06/22

Sean runs through a Rails bug that sits at the intersection of several magical and confusing Rails features. accepts_nested_attributes_for inverse_of autosave The proposed fix for 5.1.0 Datomic

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39:30

67: Longtime Listener, First Time Caller (Rafael Franca)

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2016/06/15

Leading Rails contributor Rafael Franca joins us from RailsConf to talk about taking over Sprockets, the future of the asset pipeline in Rails, managing Rails dependencies, and the hard work of software maintenance. Rafael Franca Rails Contributors Sprockets Reintroducing gzip file generation in Sprockets LibSass is Sass in C (and fast) Spriting with Compass Rails Assets is not Dead turbograft TC39 Sean said you'd all "definitely" have the final build of Rails 5 by now. Whoops!

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39:31

66: Make Ruby Scripting Great Again (Terence Lee)

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2016/06/08

We talk with Terence Lee of Heroku, Bundler, and mruby-cli fame about Apache Kafka and the future of mruby scripting. Terence Lee Kafka I Can’t Believe It’s Not A Queue: Using Kafka with Rails - Terence’s RailsConf talk. mruby mruby-cli Traveling Ruby Keep Ruby Weird

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45:52

65: Free as in Puppy (Katrina Owen)

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2016/05/25

While at RailsConf, we talk with Katrina Owen about finding metaphors for software development, the successes and mistakes of Exercism.io, and the benefits of providing code reviews. Katrina Owen Katrina's conference talks Make the change easy, then make the easy change Skunk Works by Nickolas Means Factory, Workshop, Stage by Sarah Mei The Product Design Sprint Exercism.io Exercism GitHub Organization

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55:11

64: Open Mic SF

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2016/05/18

Open Mic is back by popular demand, this time in San Francisco. We hear from developers in thoughtbot's San Francisco office about their recent investment time projects. Croniker Monica Dinculescu on emoji Gabe learns about emoji on Twitter thoughtbot blog Fear of missing out on Wikipedia FOMObot Design Sprint Tropos Gabe Berke-Williams on Twitter Tony DiPasquale on Twitter Amanda Hill on Twitter

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38:16

63: Types Are Only Good If You Use Them

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2016/05/11

Derek and Sean discuss some recent issues with exciting language features like pattern matching, macros, and static types. Pattern Matching Primitive Obsession Stringly Typed Sean's open source programming streams Sean's Twitch channel

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34:16

62: Shipping is the Fastest Way to Get Somewhere

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2016/05/04

Sean celebrates Diesel reaching "faster than a SQL string" status before we chat about Rails 5 blockers and the clarity of focus and priorities that only shipping can bring. Make Diesel faster than a SQL String How can an ORM be faster than a SQL string? ActionSupport::Executor and ActionSupport::Reloader APIs "I strongly discourage the use of autoload in any standard libraries”

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31:04

61: I'm Not Telling You My Birthday

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2016/04/27

"Send me an email every year for my birthday" is an easy thing for a human to understand but it can be deceptively tricky to do with computers. Also tricky for (some) computers: SELECT * FROM. Wait... what? DATE_PART or EXTRACT Triggers Using EXPLAIN Using ANALYZE VACUUM Derek's (mostly useless) Approximately Gem

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38:02

60: Remote Control (Katherine Fellows)

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2016/04/20

KF (Katherine Fellows) joins the show to chat about successful BridgeFoundry events and creating environments where remote developers, junior and otherwise, can thrive. KF Clojure / West ClojureBridge BridgeFoundry Self Conference Conway's Law Negativity Bias PLIBMTTBHGATY

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59: I Wish They Wouldn't Do That

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2016/04/13

Derek and Sean discuss the left-pad saga, how other programming communities are reacting to it, and what you should learn from it as a library or application author. Bash on Ubuntu on Windows I’ve Just Liberated My Modules by Azer Koçulu A discussion about the breaking of the internet (Kik’s side of the story) by Mike Roberts Kik, left-pad, and npm by Isaac Z. Schlueter from npm npm Package Hijacking: From the Hijackers Perspective by Nathan Johnson Is gem yank a security concern? Kill Your

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45:36

58: Nobody Gets Fired For Buying IBM

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2016/04/06

Should you rewrite or refactor? What should you consider as you weigh this decision and what exactly constitutes a rewrite anyway? Things You Should Never Do, Part I - Joel Spolsky on Software Rewrites What does the phrase "Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM" mean? When Understanding Means Rewriting by Jeff Atwood The Big Rewrite, revisited by DHH Thank you to Hired for sponsoring this episode!

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55:50

57: Mutability Ruins the Whole Party (José Valim)

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2016/03/30

We chat with José Valim about bringing light to Elixir's dark corners, the design goals of Ecto, and the future of Elixir, Ecto, and Phoenix. José Valim on Twitter Introducing unifying calendar types to Elixir Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones by Lau Taarnskov mix deps.tree in Elixir 1.3 mix app.tree in Elixir 1.3 Ecto.Query.preload Working with Ecto Associations and Embeds by José Valim. Ecto.Changeset Ecto 2 beta is out, including concurrent database tests github_ecto: An

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38:53

56: Most People Aren't Building Trello

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2016/03/23

Is ActiveRecord reinventing Sequel? If it is, does it matter? Derek and Sean discuss that and whether maybe we could all stand to tone down the JavaScript. ActiveRecord is Reinventing Sequel Ryan Bigg gives up his open source projects Maybe We Could Tone Down the JavaScript by Evee Stronger Parameters Mother F*cking Website Discourse Ember CLI Fastboot Introduction to HTML Imports TC39 Modernizr Can I Use: Date and Time Input Types

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55: Hot Dog is Not a Dessert

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2016/03/09

Derek and Sean talk about their experience with the Rails 5 betas, how to test against them today, and things that you might want to look out for when updating your app. Ides of March Presence validation of virtual attribute not firing appropriately ActionDispatch request helpers don't properly rewrite positional arguments to keyword arguments Strong Parameters migration path to Rails 4 A Rule of Thumb for Strong Parameters by Pat Shaughnessy Concurrent Ruby Appraisal

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42:25

54: Argument Error

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2016/03/02

Derek shares some Elixir annoyances with Sean and they discus how a consulting role colors their perception of languages and frameworks, both for better and for worse. Sean provides an update on SQLite and Association support in Diesel. GoodTImes, Timex, and Ecto.DateTime When should you use DateTime and when should you use Time by Andrew White Twitter conversation with Brandon Hikert Postgres RETURNING Preloading in Ecto User Focused Design in Elm by Evan Czaplicki Getting Started with Diesel Rust

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43:28

53: Cache Machine

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2016/02/24

Laila and Derek go on a tour of the various caching mechanisms available to web applications in general, and Rails specifically. When is the right time to cache and at what level? The Road to 2 Million Websocket Connections in Phoenix by Gary Rennie Toxic Synovitis Memoization is a Liability by Henrik Nyh Use a leading underscore for memoization Two Hard Things in Computer Science Rails SQL Cache Low-Level Caching (Rails.cache.fetch) Association counter_cache Fragment Caching Introduction to

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