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49: A More Practical Haskell
How can an ORM be faster than a SQL String? Laila and Sean discuss the latest happenings in Diesel and why it is that a systems language needs an ORM…
10 years, 3 months ago
48: Is Everyone Trying Their Best?
Software is broken. In this episode, Derek and Sean discuss why exactly it's broken, and what we can do to make it better.
The origin of "software e…10 years, 3 months ago
47: Star Wars Oranges
Ruby 2.3 is out! What are we looking forward to trying and what do we think of &. and try? Stick around after the credits for spoiler-filled discussi…
10 years, 3 months ago
46: Don't Breathe, Save the Planet
We discuss the maintenance burden of ActionCable and its dependencies on Rails 5, follow-up on Scenic issues, and discuss implementing migrations ane…
10 years, 3 months ago
45: I Think I'd Prefer An Error to Nonsense
Derek shipped Scenic 1.0, which spurs a conversation about semantic versioning and the value of the 1.0 milestone. We discuss what the bar for breaki…
10 years, 4 months ago
44: It Won't Crash... It Might Crash
Sean has shipped early versions of Diesel, an ORM for Rust! We discuss its semantic versioning, the ergonomics of use versus the complexities of impl…
10 years, 4 months ago
43: That's DOCTOR Internet Technologist
We talk about lessons learned from teachable moments both in the moment and decades later.
Teachable moment Safe Operations for High Volume PostgreS…10 years, 4 months ago
42: That's Incredibly Ambitious (Grayson Wright)
We speak to Grayson Wright about building Administrate, an open source Rails framework for administrative interfaces. What makes Administrate differe…
10 years, 4 months ago
41: Ugh, I Have to Write Web Apps in This Thing
Derek and Sean talk about Derek's exploration into Elixir and Phoenix, when and how performance matters, and ways to keep your Rails app fast from da…
10 years, 5 months ago
40: ActiveRecord Deprecated Persistence
The ActiveRecord update API is a mess of methods that confuse even ActiveRecord’s maintainer. What are the problems and is there any hope for a solut…
10 years, 5 months ago