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397: Dependency Graphs
Stephanie is consciously trying to make meetings better for herself by limiting distractions. A few episodes ago, Joël talked about a frustrating bug…
3 years, 1 month ago
396: Build vs. Buy
Joël has been fighting a frustrating bug where he's integrating with a third-party database, and some queries just crash. Stephanie shares her own de…
3 years, 1 month ago
395: Human Connection in a Virtual (Work) World
Stephanie had a small consulting win: saying no to a client. GeoGuessr is all the rage for thoughtbot's remote working culture, which leads to today'…
3 years, 1 month ago
394: Submitting a Conference Talk Proposal from Start to Finish
Joël recently had a fascinating conversation with some friends about the power of celebrating and highlighting small wins in their lives. He talks ab…
3 years, 1 month ago
393: Is REST the Best? APIs and Domain Modeling
It's updates on the work front today! Stephanie was tasked with removing a six-year-old feature flag from a codebase. Joël's been doing a lot of smal…
3 years, 2 months ago
392: Managing Changing Business Requirements
Joël has a fascinating discovery! He learned a new nuance around working with dependency graphs. Stephanie just finished playing a 100-hour video gam…
3 years, 2 months ago
391: Learn with APPL
Stephanie went to her first WNBA game. Also: Bingo. Joël's new project has him trying to bring in multiple databases to back their ActiveRecord model…
3 years, 2 months ago
390: The Truth about Truthiness
Joël's new work project involves tricky date formats. Stephanie has been working with former Bike Shed host Steph Viccari and loved her peer review f…
3 years, 2 months ago
389: Review Season
Stephanie just got back from a smaller regional Ruby Conference, Blue Ridge Ruby, in Asheville, North Carolina. Joël started a new project at work.
R…
3 years, 2 months ago
388: Empowering Other Departments Within a Company
Joël has a bike shorts update; Stephanie has a garden one.
Often, power is centralized within the dev team. This is usually because they are the only…
3 years, 3 months ago