Podcast Episodes

419: What's New in Your World? (Extended Edition)

Stephanie introduces her ideal setup for enjoying coffee on a bike ride. Joël describes his afternoon tea ritual. Exciting news from the hosts: both …

2 years, 1 month ago

418: Mental Models For Reduce Functions

Joël talks about his difficulties optimizing queries in ActiveRecord, especially with complex scopes and unions, resulting in slow queries. He emphas…

2 years, 1 month ago

417: Module Docs

Stephanie shares about her vacation at Disney World, particularly emphasizing the technological advancements in the park's mobile app that made her v…

2 years, 1 month ago

416: Multi-Dimensional Numbers

Joël discusses the challenges he encountered while optimizing slow SQL queries in a non-Rails application. Stephanie shares her experience with canar…

2 years, 2 months ago

415: Codebase Calibration

Stephanie has a delightful and cute Ruby thing to share: Honeybadger, the error monitoring service, has created exceptionalcreatures.com, where they'…

2 years, 2 months ago

414: Spike Tasks

Joël shares his recent experience with Turbo, a JavaScript framework that simplifies adding interactivity to websites without extensive JavaScript co…

2 years, 2 months ago

413: Developer Tales of Package Management

Stephanie shares her task of retiring a small, internally-used link-shortening app. She describes the process as both celebratory and a bit mournful.…

2 years, 3 months ago

412: Vertical Slices

Joël shares a unique, time-specific bug he encountered, which causes a page to crash only in January. This bug has been fixed in previous years, only…

2 years, 3 months ago

411: Celebrating and Recapping 2023!

Stephanie is hosting a holiday cookie swap. Joël talks about participating in thoughtbot's end-of-the-year hackathon, Ralphapalooza.

We had a great …

2 years, 4 months ago

410: All About Documentation

Joël shares his experiences with handling JSON in a Postgres database. He talks about his challenges with ActiveRecord and JSONB columns, particularl…

2 years, 4 months ago