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On this week's episode, Steph and Chris discuss a git-blame feature that supports bypassing less helpful commits. They also revisit a discussion about Dependabot PRs and recent performance adjustments, sharing which strategies worked and which ones didn't. They also discuss the dreaded three-state boolean, designing a system for cacheability, and using Ruby's magic comment to freeze string literals. This episode is brought to you by: ScoutAPM - Give Scout a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy Indeed - Click through and get started with a free seventy five dollar credit for your first job post Trello Account Switching Feature Git feature: ignore-revs-file Chris's Tweet about ignore-revs-file Strong Migrations MemCachier Ruby 2.3 - magic comment to freeze string literals Sponsored By:Scout: Give Scout a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy.Indeed: Click through and get started with a free seventy five dollar credit for your first job postSupport The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Steph & Chris take a deep dive into all things technical debt. How do you know when your code has reached "good enough"? When might we purposefully knowingly take on technical debt? How do we tackle existing technical debt without halting new development? How can we tell high-interest, hair on fire debt from "ehh, it's fine" debt that we can let lie? Tune in to find out! This episode is brought to you by: ScoutAPM - Give Scout a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy FusionAuth - Use it for free today and get a free t-shirt, or upgrade to their paid editions and get 25% with promo code BIKESHED Rack::Timeout Sigterm The Art of Code Comments - Sarah Drasner | JSConf Hawaii 2020 Technical Debt Panel from thoughtbot Gary Bernhardt on Full Stack Radio Sandy Metz - The Halflife of Code Code Climate Churn vs Complexity Graph Become a Sponsor of The Bike Shed!Sponsored By:Scout: Give Scout a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy.FusionAuth: Use it for free today and get a free t-shirt. Or, upgrade to their paid editions and get 25% with promo code BIKESHED Promo Code: BIKESHEDSupport The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Chris shares his recent adventures of working with a team that prioritizes async-first communication and Steph revisits a previous discussion around the use of web sockets and optimistic user interfaces. They also dive into the classically hard question "should we rewrite the app?" and share survival tips for learning to type on a split keyboard. This episode is brought to you by: ScoutAPM - Give Scout a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy Indeed - Click through and get started with a free seventy five dollar credit for your first job post Telegram Phoenix Channels JavaScript client Express.js MongoDB ErgoDox Keyboard A Modern Space Cadet Atreus Keyboard Moonlander Keyboard Sponsored By:Scout: Give Scout a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy.Indeed: Click through and get started with a free seventy five dollar credit for your first job postSupport The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Steph and Chris chat about the relatively new Rails view_component library from GitHub, Steph talks about her work with Storybook as part of extracting and defining a design system, and they chat about the attr_extras project with convenience helpers for ruby & Rails apps. They round out the conversation with some keyboard updates (ErgoDox onramp is steep!) and project rotation notes. This episode is brought to you by ScoutAPM. Give Scout a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy! ErgoDox Atreus Keyboard Rails view_component Storybook.js Styleguidist attr_extras Sorbet static types for Ruby Sponsored By:Scout: Give Scout a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy.Support The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Steph celebrates passing an important test and discovers an API that returns different data than it's provided while Chris asks the important bikeshed question "What is the proper maximum line length?". They also roundup the latest listener questions and discuss establishing freelancing rates, property-based testing, and time tracking skills that help them manage competing priorities. This episode is brought to you by ScoutAPM. Give Scout a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy! Prettier Ruby Toptal Upwork QuickCheck Hypothesis Rantly Sponsored By:Scout: Give Scout a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy.Support The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Steph and Chris have a brief chat about Snowpack, a new and ultra-speedy bundler in the front-end world, and revisit a conversation around namespacing models in Rails. The conversation then shifts to a discussion of the ins and outs of hosting a podcast and how folks might be able to dive in if they're interested in starting one themselves -- from selecting topics, to the hardware and software they use, to the guiding philosophy in how to discuss technical concepts. This episode is brought to you by: ScoutAPM - Give Scout a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy Indeed - Click through and get started with a free seventy five dollar credit for your first job post "Selling Technical Debt Back to The Business" workshop Snowpack Vite React Fast Refresh Saron's tweet about questions re: starting a podcast The War of Art Fireside.fm AudioHijack ZenCastr Audio-Technica ATR2100x-USB Microphone Shure SM7Bs Foam Mic Cover (aka pop filter, aka windscreen Patreon The Ginger People Sponsored By:Scout: Give Scout a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy.Indeed: Click through and get started with a free seventy five dollar credit for your first job postSupport The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Steph and Chris discuss leveraging the Unix utility sed to search files and remove unnecessary test setup, using Vim's Arglist to create a to-do list for file edits, and budgeting time for fancy command-line scripts. They then take a deep dive into the world of utility-first CSS and TailwindCSS. This episode is brought to you by: ScoutAPM - Give Scout a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy ExpressVPN - Click through to get get an extra three months FREE on a one-year package Register here to attend the free panel discussion "How to sell technical debt to the business" sed The Unix Chainsaw by Gary Bernhardt awk Vim's Arglist as a File-Centric Todo List xkcd React Podcast - 88: Adam Wathan on Making Your Own Money, Refactoring UI, and tailwindcss Tailwind CSS Tailwind Cheat Sheet Redesigning the Tuple Client UI Bourbon PurgeCSS thoughtbot dotfiles PostCSS Sponsored By:Scout: Give Scout a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy.ExpressVPN: Click through to get get an extra three months FREE on a one-year package!Support The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Steph and Chris discuss using JSONB to store survey responses and the differences between JSON and JSONB, using (or not using!) exceptions in Ruby and the fail keyword, the pros and cons of namespacing models in Rails to organize features, and a new recommendation for running tests from vim. This episode is brought to you by ScoutAPM. Give Scout a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy! Seagull Mic Drop vim-test plugin for running tests vim-rspec thoughtbot's plugin for running specs from vim JSON types in Postgres Ruby fail keyword Avdi Grimm and Jim Weirich on exceptions The Zen of Python Idris programming language Sponsored By:Scout: Give Scout a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy.Support The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Chris and Steph discuss the importance of using inclusive language, branching into new branch names, and strategies that encourage the use of inclusive terminology. Chris also shares his latest experience with merging two systems that were split apart back into one system, tackling conflicting foreign keys and competing auth libraries. Steph discusses using polling vs web sockets to monitor work being completed in a background job and communicating to the user the various states of success and failure. Seagulls are the Worst Angie Jones Tatiana Mac Pariss Athena Renaming factory_girl to factory_bot Juneteenth Empathy Online SlackBot - Keep Conversations Inclusive Clearance Devise Active Model Serializers Blueprinter 203: A Blessed Monkeypatch (Eileen M. Uchitelle) JWT Action Cable Akka Streams Support The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Steph and Chris trade some consulting and everyone comes out a winner. Steph talks about a win and a loss on the battlefield of refactoring, and Chris shares a related effort around identifying and removing unused code. Chris shares a pattern his team has been using with a special "demo" flag to provide small enhancements but otherwise keep sales demos within the product. Steph then shares some friction related to using dependabot on her team's project that hints at more foundational ideas at the intersection of workflow, team dynamics, testing, deployment. And finally, Chris asks Steph for her thoughts on how best to add testing around the structure of API responses. This episode is brought to you by Datadog. Click through to get a free 14-day trial and a free Datadog t-shirt! Coverband for production code coverage Flipper feature flag gem Dependabot JSON Schema Swagger rspec-request_snapshot Say no to more process, say yes to trust One electron theory Sponsored By:Datadog: Click through to get a free 14-day trial and a free Datadog t-shirt!Support The Bike Shed