Podcast Episodes

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, 9 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 months ago

309: Naming the Change

Steph talks about a new GitHub feature and Twitter account (@RubyCards) she's really excited about and Chris talks about his new job as a CTO of a st…

4 years, 11 months ago

308: That’s Picante

You know what really grinds Chris' gears? (Spoiler Alert: It's Single-Page Applications.)

Steph needs some consulting help. So much to do, so little …

5 years ago