Episode Details

Stephanie is hosting a holiday cookie swap. Joël talks about participating in thoughtbot's end-of-the-year hackathon, Ralphapalooza.

We had a great year on the show! The hosts wrap up the year and discuss their favorite episodes, the articles, books, and blog posts they’ve read and loved, and other highlights of 2023 (projects, conferences, etc).

• Olive Oil Sugar Cookies With Pistachios & Lemon Glaze
• thoughtbot’s Blog
• Episode 398: Developing Heuristics For Writing Software
• Episode 374: Discrete Math
• Episode 405: Sandi Metz’s Rules
• Episode 391: Learn with APPL
• Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
• Confident Ruby
• Working with Maybe from Elm Europe
• Sustainable Rails Book
• Episode 368: Sustainable Web Development
• Domain Modeling Made Functional
• Simplifying Tests by Extracting Side Effects
• The Math Every Programmer Needs
• Mermaid.js sequence diagrams
• Sense of Belonging and Software Teams
• Preemptive Pluralization is (Probably) Not Evil
• Digging through the ashes

Transcript:

JOËL: Hello and welcome to another episode of The Bike Shed, a weekly podcast from your friends at thoughtbot about developing great software. I'm Joël Quenneville.

STEPHANIE: And I'm Stephanie Minn. And together, we're here to share a bit of what we've learned along the way.

JOËL: So, Stephanie, what's new in your world?

STEPHANIE: I am so excited to talk about this. I'm, like, literally smiling [chuckles] because I'm so pumped. Sometimes, you know, we get on to record, and I'm like, oh, I got to think of something that's new, like, my life is so boring. I have nothing to share. But today, I am excited to tell you about [chuckles] the holiday cookie swap that I'm hosting this Sunday [laughs] that I haven't been able to stop thinking about or just thinking about all the cookies that I'm going to get to eat.

It's going to be my first time throwing this kind of shindig, and I'm so pleased with myself because it's such a great idea. You know, it's like, you get to share cookies, and you get to have all different types of cookies, and then people get to take them home. And I get to see all my friends. And I'm really [chuckles] looking forward to it.

JOËL: I don't think I've ever been to a cookie swap event. How does that work? Everybody shows up with cookies, and then you leave with what you want?

STEPHANIE: That's kind of the plan. I think it's not really a...there's no rules [laughs]. You can make it whatev