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On this week's episode, Steph is joined by George Brocklehurst, a Development Director in the NYC thoughtbot office. Steph and George chat about the variety of projects and technologies that caught their attention during thoughtbot's recent internal hackathon. They also dive into Gitsh, a dedicated shell for Git commands, as they chat about preferred git workflows and George shares his recent adventure in updating Gitsh to support tab completion. FirebaseFlowGitsh - An interactive shell for gitUpcase - Learn GitshSupport The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Chris and Steph discuss their recent holiday hackathon efforts building a game in Elm. They discuss their experiences with Elm and the broader prospects of using Elm in more production applications. They also discuss the new git subcommands "git switch" and "git restore", and round things out with a listener question concerning FactoryBot and "minimum viable factories".Git new commands (git switch & git restore)Live playable version of the hackathon gameReaction Game RepoLessons Learned: Avoiding Primitives in ElmPrevious Bike Shed discussions about deleting migrationsFactories Should Be The Bare MinimumFactoryBot.lintFactoryBot build_stubbedSupport The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, in celebration of the new year, Thom shares the 2019 blooper reel! Words are hard and here's the audio to prove it. Listen to all of the silly mishaps, goofs, and general nonsense captured in between the moments of "professional podcasting". Chris and Steph also reflect on their top themes of 2019 and discuss New Year Systems vs New Year Resolutions.Karabiner-ElementsRailsConf 2016 - The Guest: A Guide To Code Hospitality by Nadia OdunayoAtomic Habits: James ClearSupport The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Steph gets Chris to share his biggest developer regrets over the years. They also revisit a favorite topic of estimation and story points, and round out the conversation with some details from the world of application security.ActiveSupport secure_compare and fixed_length_secure_comparethoughtbot's Application security guidePepper (cryptography)How did this complicated RegEx come to be? (Derek's tweet)Vim RFactoryWhat I Believe About Software - Bike Shed episode 172Say No To More Process blog postSupport The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Chris catches us up on his latest keyboard adventures and Steph shares her first impression of working with Ember.They also dive into Chris's experience triaging errors Sentry, their love for Elm, how teams achieve a consistent velocity, and Steph's upcoming workshop on how to stay agile when building a healthcare product. To bring it home, they respond to a listener who's wondering when is it a good idea to convert a loose data structure (e.g.: hash) into a class?PrettierSentryFree Workshop - How to stay agile when building compliant health tech productsIf you're enjoying The Bike Shed, we'd love it if you could give it a rating or review on iTunes. Thanks!Support The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Chris and Steph discuss identifying refactoring opportunities by highlighting overly coupled code and Chris announces that he has advanced his vim setup into the 21st century by making the switch to Neovim. Types of CouplingHuskyConquer of Completion PluginDive Into Neovim on UpcaseMastering the Vim LanguageOnramp to VimPostgres Check ConstraintsSupport The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Steph and Chris dive into the world of crafting pull requests for optimal code review, as well as the flip side of providing code review. How can we make it easy for reviewers, and as reviewers, how can we make it easy for our teammates to incorporate our suggestions?They also discuss the world of testing, from integration to visual to unit testing, and some of the tools an practices they use at each level.Lastly, they discuss Steph's continued pairing adventures and possibly finding her max on the pairing front, a quick update on mechanical keyboards, and Steph shares a teaser of an upcoming workshop she'll be hosting around how to stay agile when building health tech products.This episode of The Bike Shed is sponsored by Honeybadger.XKCD - Crazy Straws Fractal SubgroupsKeyboard MaestroBrett Terpstra - Hyper KeyBrett Terpstra - A Useful Caps Lock KeyVimium chrome extensionTuple apptestcafeCypressPercy.ioJest screenshotsReact Testing LibraryEnzymeReact hooksthoughtbot Health Tech Online Workshop (hosted by Steph!)If you're enjoying The Bike Shed, we'd love it if you could give it a rating or review on iTunes. Thanks!Support The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Chris and Steph catch up on recent client adventures, revisit their feelings on using let in rspec, and spend a bit of time outside their respective comfort zones. There's also some talk about nearly full-time pairing, mechanical keyboards, debugging thorny datetime issues, and how we interact with our developer tools and workflows.This episode of The Bike Shed is sponsored by Honeybadger.Tuple (remote pairing app)Leopold 660 with Cherry MX BrownsHusky - "git hooks made easy"Cassidy Williams eslint video tweetFlipper "disable fun mode"Let’s Not - Rspec blog postThe Zen of PythonIf you're enjoying The Bike Shed, we'd love it if you could give it a rating or review on iTunes. Thanks!Support The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Chris and Steph chat about their new client projects, VimScript, and ways to automate refreshing materialized views in tests. They also play the game Overrated/Underrated, created by Tyler Owen, and respond to a CS student who is feeling overwhelmed by the various technologies and looking to transition from tutorials to meaningful projects.This episode of The Bike Shed is sponsored by Honeybadger.thoughtbot dotfilesctrlp.vimFZFLearn Vimscript the Hard Waythoughtbot laptop scriptscenicConversations with TylerShopTalk ShowDeadlinesThe Real Story Behind Story PointsIf you're enjoying The Bike Shed, we'd love it if you could give it a rating or review on iTunes. Thanks!Support The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Steph catches us up on her ever-growing collection of mechanical keyboards, Chris talks about his recent purchase of an apple watch, and they follow up a previous discussion around case-sensitivity (or insensitivity) in URLs and email addresses. They round out the discussion with a chat about writing blog posts and some postgres fun, and finally discuss the merits and drawbacks of monorepos.This episode of The Bike Shed is sponsored by Honeybadger.MechanicalKeyboards.comFrozen LLama Ducky KeyboardApple WatchWithings WatchPostgres Citext (Case-Insensitive text field type)Chris's blog post on Sharing Query Logic Within ActiveRecord ModelsMatt Sumner's Post on DeadlinesOn Writing by Stephen KingThe War of ArtMonorepos: Please don’t!Monorepo: please do!Lerna - toll for monorepo management in javascriptIf you're enjoying The Bike Shed, we'd love it if you could give it a rating or review on iTunes. Thanks!Support The Bike Shed