Episode Details

Chris gives the deets on that new new – (he joined a startup!) and laments about the back button being so complicated. Steph talks about extracting an untrustworthy service and likens the scenario to making a Pixar movie. You don't wanna miss this hero's journey!

• Eric Bailey's bunny updates
• Katrina Owen's Therapeutic Refactoring Talk
• EnjoyHQ User research platform
• Aurelius also a user research platform
• Dry Monad (part of dry-rb)
• Previous Bike Shed discussing dry-monads
• Railway Oriented Programming
• Bike Shed "Seeking Calm" Episode
• Previous Episode Discussing Multi-Step Forms
• Discussion thread on Inertia repo re: back button cache

Transcript:

STEPH: Yes, I was getting text messages from you where you were like, “Go on without me.”

CHRIS: [laughs] Leave me behind!

STEPH: [laughs] No developer left behind!!

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

STEPH: And I’m Steph Viccari.

CHRIS: And together, we're here to share a bit of what we've learned along the way. So, Steph, how's your week going?

STEPH: Hey, Chris. It's been a very busy week. There's been a lot going on. But the most delightful part of my week has been that Eric Bailey, another thoughtboter and also a former guest on this show, has a tiny, little baby bunny living in his backyard, and so he has been sharing updates about this little baby bunny. In fact, he's been sharing some pictures on Twitter as well. So I'll include a link in the show notes so other people can experience the joy. Also, the name of the bunny gets me every time. But they have named the bunny “Corndog.”

CHRIS: Checks out. It seems like a very obvious name for a small bunny.

STEPH: It gets me because that's such a big name. I don't know why it's a big name, but it feels like a big name for a little bunny.

CHRIS: I can say yeah, it's a cornball. Yeah, that's a large name. And so a tiny bunny is a...it's like Little John from Robin Hood. It's perfect.

STEPH: [chuckles] I kept referring to him as Corn Nugget, I guess, because of size. But yes, it’s not corn nugget; it’s Corndog. [chuckles] So watching Eric's little bunny has been delightful and a wonderful addition to the week. How about you? How has your week been?

CHRIS: My week has been great. I was off on vacation last week (so you had a guest on), which was fun to just take a week off and reset the system. But actually, this week has been interesting. It was my first full-time week with a new startup that I have joined. I think, yeah, that seems to be the truth in the world. So a bit of a shift from what I've been doing for the last year and a half, almost something like that. The reason there's hesitance in my voice is because I've actually been working with this organization for six months-ish, depending on how you count it. I've been having conversations, and then it’s slowly grown over time where it was just conversations, and then it was an afternoon a week, and then one day a week, and then two, and three. And finally,