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359: Serializers
Chris Toomey is back! (For an episode.) He talks about what he's been up to since handing off the reins to Joël. He's been playing around with someth…
3 years, 6 months ago
358: Class Methods
Inspired by a Slack thread, Joël invites fellow thoughtbotter Aji Slater on the show to talk about when you should use class methods and when you sho…
3 years, 6 months ago
357: Notetaking For Developers
Joël is joined by Amanda Beiner, a Senior Software Engineer at GitHub, who is known for her legendary well-organized notes. They talk about various t…
3 years, 6 months ago
356: The Value of Specialized Vocabulary
Guest and fellow thoughtbotter Stephanie Minn and Joël chat about how the idea of specialized vocabulary came up during a discussion of the Ruby Scie…
3 years, 7 months ago
355: Test Performance
Guest Geoff Harcourt, CTO of CommonLit, joins Joël to talk about a thing that comes up with a lot with clients: the performance of their test suite. …
3 years, 7 months ago
354: The History of Computing
Why does the history of computing matter? Joël and Developer at thoughtbot Sara Jackson, ponder this and share some cool stories (and trivia!!) behin…
3 years, 7 months ago
353: Mental Models
Mental models are metaphors that help us understand complex problems we work on. They can be a simplified roadmap over an infinite area of complexity…
3 years, 7 months ago
352: Case Expressions
As developers, we care a lot about code quality. How do we know how good is good enough? When do we stop improving code? Alternatively, when working …
3 years, 7 months ago
351: Learning in Public
It's Joël's first episode as host of The Bike Shed! 👋
Joël has fellow thoughtbotter Steve Polito join him to talk about the benefits and drawbacks of…
3 years, 8 months ago
350: 21 Bell Salute
It's Steph and Chris' last show.
Steph found a game, and if you've been following the journey, all of the Test::Unit test files are now live in RSpe…
3 years, 8 months ago