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137: What's Up, Docs
Who should library documentation be written for? How do you, as an author, know what your users will need to know? Should you have long form guides i…
8 years, 8 months ago
136: Propagating Conspiracy Theories
Amanda joins Derek to discuss KotlinConf, powerful IDEs, our Ralphapalooza hackathon, and the React Native experience from a native mobile developer'…
8 years, 8 months ago
135: A Series of Unfortunate Examples
We discuss a possible ActiveRecord bug Derek encountered and explore the ambiguity of SQL formatting best practices.
thoughtbot podcast swag Working…8 years, 9 months ago
134: Fastributes
We share our favorite talks from RubyConf and discuss how Sean has made ActiveRecord attributes allocation significantly faster with Rust.
Saving Ru…8 years, 9 months ago
133: A Very Special Bike Shed
Sean is on to a significant ActiveRecord optimization using an extension written in Rust and Derek shares an overdue thanks to an excellent manager.
…8 years, 9 months ago
132: What Went Well?
We discuss patterns and anti-patterns encountered in agile retrospectives and revisit a favorite topic: form objects.
Running a Retrospective Scrum …8 years, 10 months ago
131: Nouns For Verbs Sake
We briefly discuss the renaming of factory_girl to factory_bot before diving in to the visitor pattern; what is it, and what are its inherent tradeof…
8 years, 10 months ago
130: I Grew Up in Balloons
Is Database Cleaner necessary anymore? Tune in for our exciting play-by-play reporting on that issue and stick around for chatter on personal default…
8 years, 10 months ago
129: You Wanna Talk About GraphQL?
We discuss an issue in the interaction between Rails, Chrome, and the HTTP referrer policy before Derek shares his love for GraphQL.
Referrer-Policy…8 years, 10 months ago
128: And Now for My Next Trick!
We discuss strategies for fighting back against project management overhead, refactoring workflows, and on-call rotations.
Make the change easy, the…8 years, 11 months ago