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On this week's episode, Steph shares a keyboard confession and interest in migrating to a split keyboard layout. Chris dives into creating static error pages that are independent of the app while still leveraging the app's CSS framework. They also respond to a listener question about Conventional Commits and discuss when automation tooling feels helpful vs harmful. ErgoDox EZ Keyboard Keyboardio Atreus Tailwind CSS PurgeCSS CSS Used Chrome Extension Conventional Commits SemVer semantic-release husky GitHub Issue and Pull Request TemplatesSupport The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Steph and Chris discuss potential approaches to a complex client-side workflow, Chris shares the highs and lows of his recent adventures revising the caching in a REST API, Steph shares an Ember testing pro-tip and then explores the questions it brings up, and lastly, they revisit prettier-ruby and it's fantastic configuration setup. This episode is brought to you by Datadog. Click through to get a free 14-day trial and a free Datadog t-shirt! prettier-ruby configuration Chrome DevTools Keyboard Shortcuts Test'em - Ember test runner Chrome full-page screenshots Rails action caching Memcachier Rails stale? and fresh_when etag calculation Rails cache method for "fragment caching" Rails travel_to time helpers Rspec and_call_original Single-table inheritance vs. polymorphic associations in Rails Inertia.js Sponsored By:Datadog: Click through to get a free 14-day trial and a free Datadog t-shirt!Support The Bike Shed

We are pausing our normal tech-talk this week in support of the ongoing protests and to re-share the #BlackTechTwitter episode with Pariss Athena from our sister podcast, Giant Robots. During the past week, millions of people across the country have participated in protests in response to the killing of George Floyd and the systemic racism that plagues our nation. For everyone fighting for equality and justice, we see you, we love you, and we support you. Black lives matter. Black culture matters. Black communities matter. For those looking for ways to take action, we have provided a few resources in the show notes. The list is intentionally short as we ask everyone to research ways to get involved and listen to leaders in the Black community. Fighting for equality falls on each of us, regardless of race or position, to work together to fight racism and unequal treatment. Stay Safe. Giant Robots: A True Movement (Pariss Athena) Black Tech Twitter Black Tech Pipeline Black Lives Matter Resources provided by Diversify Tech Original Notes from Giant Robots Episode 343 Pariss Athena, Hiring & Product Team Member at G2i, creator of #BlackTechTwitter, and founder of Black Tech Pipeline, shares her journey from never hearing about code to viral awareness campaign creator, as well as discusses visibility, finding value on twitter, and life online with thousands of followers. Resilient CodersThe Tweet that started #BlackTechTwitter"Hannibal Buress Is Building An Arts And Technology Center For The Future Masterminds Of The West Side"Black Tech PipelinePariss on TwitterSupport The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Steph is joined by thoughtbotter German Velasco. German and Steph chat about remote work and the rewards and challenges of their new(ish) roles as Development Team Leads. German also shares that he is writing a book! German shares his approach for defining a MVB (Minimum Viable Book), ideas for how to collect feedback, and plans for publishing. Lastly, they discuss a vim plugin that lives up to the hype. This episode is brought to you by Datadog. Click through to get a free 14-day trial and a free Datadog t-shirt! To register for the free online workshop "How to Supercharge Your Rails App with a Code Audit", visit https://thoughtbot.com/events/code-audit-workshop. GitBook Michael Hartl - The Ruby on Rails Tutorial Workshop - Being Human in the Absence of Humans Workshop - How to stay agile when building compliant health tech products vim-fugitive Write good commit messages by blaming others Upcase course featuring vim-fugitive More episodes with German: 188: A Function by Any Other Name 167: I Feel Like We Should've Solved This By Now Sponsored By:Datadog: Click through to get a free 14-day trial and a free Datadog t-shirt!Support The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Steph troubleshoots a mysterious Ember test failure that can't find a visible element, and Chris recounts an exciting three-act adventure that spans N+1 queries, caching, and SQL window functions. Steph also touches on upgrading to Ember Octane and Glimmer components and Chris shares a new helpful tool for drawing architecture diagrams. Window.find() Dash Wat - Lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt Draw.io batch-loader SQL Window Function Advanced ActiveRecord Querying Scout ActiveSupport::Notifications Ember Octane Pry show-source Support The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Chris shares his recent explorations of railway oriented programming (hint: not what you think!) while doing his best to avoid words like "monad" and "functor" (he does not succeed in this effort). Steph updates on her quest for the ultimate personal note taking app and some misadventures in DNS and networking, and they touch on their shared search for ergonomics in the home office world we all live in these days. This episode is brought to you by ExpressVPN. Click through to get three months for free. Chris's new rounded footrest VSCode LiveShare dry-monads dry-monads Do notations Railway Oriented Programming Dont Use Exceptions For Flow Control Roam Research Bear notes app mDNSResponder SIGHUP iStats Spurious Qs fzf Preview Window bat (alternative to cat) Vim floating windows Sponsored By: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, Chris and Steph share their excitement for Roam Research and formatting Ruby with Prettier Ruby. They also discuss writing test coverage for an important GDPR process, embracing async communication, and share their preferred strategies for knowledge sharing within teams and the broader community. Roam Research Bear DayOne Reveal.js Github Draft Pull Requests Prettier Ruby CoC GDPR Stack Overflow for Teams Basecamp Twist The Golden Rule for programmers Support The Bike Shed

On this week's episode Steph and Chris dig into MVP thinking and asking how we can write as little code as possible before finding out if any user will actually want the thing we're building. They also tackle a listener question around Vim and the general ROI on honing our developer tools, discuss some of the subtleties of HTTP and forms as well as the difficulties when half of our UI is in React and the other half Rails, and lastly chat a bit about their adaptation to full-time remote work. VS Code Mastering the Vim Language talk by Chris Bogdan Gusiev's Rails issue describing the select multiple behavior postgres check_constraint Formik react-hook-form Balsamiq Mockups 7 Tips for Better User Interviews with Jaclyn Perrone More of Jaclyn Perrone on thoughtbot's design-focussed podcast, Tentative Support The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Chris and Steph discuss troubleshooting a race condition, trusting your intuition and pessimistic locks. They also touch briefly on TailWind CSS before diving deep into first impressions of Inertia.js. This episode is brought to you by ExpressVPN. Click through to get three months for free. ActiveRecord::Locking::Pessimistic#with_lock Derek Prior's blog post - "Validation, Database Constraint, or Both?" TailWind CSS Inertia.js Sponsored By: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 what it really means to make a project "open source". Is it just about making the code publicly available, or should we be considering licenses and responsibility to update? They also discuss the need for breaks and structure now that everyone is working from home, revisit previous discussions around building functionality for admin users and the various admin systems out there, and they round out the conversation with a discussion around doubles vs spies in testing. Note - No snakes were harmed as Steph found them a new home 😊 Enroll in our free online-workshop on code audits How to supercharge your Rails application with a code audit Using CDPATH to Quickly cd Upcase repo on GitHub MIT License Choosing an open-source license active_admin React admin Administrate Rails postgres native array Inertia.js RSpec Spies vs Doubles RSpec verified doubles Support The Bike Shed