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319: Wins & Losses
Steph started a new project and shares details about the new tools she's using, including working on a remote dev environment. Chris shares a journey…
4 years, 4 months ago
318: Successful Skills with Edward Loveall
Fellow thoughtboter Edward Loveall joins Steph to cohost and talk about alternative frontends and his own that he created: scribe.rip: an alternative…
4 years, 4 months ago
317: Burn The Ships!
Steph gives an update about RSpec focus and how she often forgets to remove the focus feature from tests. She figured out two solutions: one using Ru…
4 years, 4 months ago
316: Constrain and Refactor
Chris finally got his new computer! 🎉 🎉 🎉 He gives his initial review. He's also super excited that GitHub announced a beta for pull requests merge…
4 years, 5 months ago
315: Emotions Are A Pendulum
Steph talks about starting a new project and identifying "focused" tests while Chris shares his latest strategy for managing flaky tests. They also p…
4 years, 5 months ago
314: Communication, Testing, and Accountability
Chris regains several of his developer merit badges and embarks on a perilous CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) adventure. Steph shares highlights fr…
4 years, 6 months ago
313: Forty-Seven Percent
Steph talks about binging a few Things Worth Learning podcast episodes and particularly enjoyed an episode that featured one of thoughtbot's design d…
4 years, 6 months ago
312: Spooky Stories
Chris evaluates the pros and cons between using Sidekiq or Active Job with Sidekiq. He sees exceptions everywhere.
Steph talks about an SSL error th…
4 years, 6 months ago
311: Marketing Matters
Longtime listener and friend of the show, Gio Lodi, released a book y'all should check out and Chris and Steph ruminate on a listener question about …
4 years, 6 months ago
310: Schedule Shut Down, Complete
Chris talks feature flags featuring Flipper (Say that 3x fast!), and Steph talks reducing stress by a) having a work shutdown ritual and b) the fact …
4 years, 7 months ago