Podcast Episodes

77: The Floors Are Not Zero Indexed

How can you get your open source pull request merged?

Elevator number pad Sorry, video of Sean’s Abstractions Conference talk is not yet available C…

10 years ago

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76: The One With Laila & Brenda

Between thoughtbot's Summer Summit and Sean's vacation, we are sadly without a new episode this week. However, we would love you all to check out tho…

10 years, 1 month ago

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75: I'm Not Sure That's Better

Derek and Sean discuss hunting down intermittently failing tests, finding unused code in your application, and why you should never ever change your …

10 years, 1 month ago

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74: A Dip in the Connection Pool

We talk through design considerations for a user-visible custom query builder for a high volume ecommerce system.

Ransack Using Arel to Compose SQL …

10 years, 1 month ago

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73: Probably In My Other Pants

We discuss Pokémon Go and what it's success might mean for software developers before Sean lays out his case for replacing the pg gem and libpq.

Der…

10 years, 1 month ago

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72: Surprises Cut For Time (Aaron Patterson)

Aaron Patterson joins us from RailsConf for puns, performance improvements in Ruby, and AirDropping cats.

Gorbypuff Virus UTF8 vs UTF16 vs UTF32 Wha…

10 years, 1 month ago

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71: It's a Total Hack

Inspired by Nickolas Means’ fantastic RailsConf keynote, we discuss the corollaries between Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works projects and our software d…

10 years, 2 months ago

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70: Make Small Things (Sandi Metz)

Sandi Metz joins us live from RailsConf to talk about the rules, the trouble with naming things, making the right kinds of errors, and conference spe…

10 years, 2 months ago

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69: No More Drills

We discuss thoughtbot's increasing use of Elixir and Phoenix and what that means for our Rails work before diving into what's new in Elixir 1.3 and E…

10 years, 2 months ago

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68: Mostly Undocumented

Sean runs through a Rails bug that sits at the intersection of several magical and confusing Rails features.

accepts_nested_attributes_for inverse_o…

10 years, 2 months ago

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