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On this week's episode, Chris is joined by Glenn Vanderburg, VP of Engineering at First.io, live from RailsConf. They discuss Glenn's RailsConf talk, "The 30-Month Migration", covering distributed data models, refactoring, and the wonders of postgres. They also discuss Glenn's famous talk, "Real Software Engineering", and what the term "software engineering" means within our communities. Glenn on Twitter Glenn's RailsConf talk - The 30-Month Migration Glenn's blog First.io Postgres MySQL Postgres Common Table Expressions (CTEs) Swanand Pagnis - It's 2017, and I still want to sell you a graph database! GraphQL Glenn Vanderburg - Real Software Engineering Agile Manifesto Extreme Programming Rust Language Kathleen Fisher Kathleen Fisher, High Assurance Systems AWS Firecracker Bike Shed with Lin Clark & Till Schneidereit on WebAssembly & WASI Fastly Lucet Chaos Engineering Chaos Monkey Joe Armstrong Erlang Property Based Testing Erlang Actor Model Clojure ClojureScript Functional Core, Imperative Shell Sorbet - Stripe library for gradual static typing in Ruby Support The Bike Shed

Steph and Chris discuss Redux, integration testing strategies, scoping data for React components, and take a question from a listener about improving process and reducing bugs in a complex service-oriented system with a hint of waterfall in their workflow. Angular Apollo Capybara CircleCI CircleCI Orbs Cypress Docker Enzyme GraphQL HTTP Heroku Buildpack Mystery Guests Nightmare.js Normalizer RSpec React Redux Reselect SOA - Service Oriented Architecture Selenium Swagger The Real Story Behind Story Points Thunk json schema lunar npm react-testing-library Support The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Chris welcomes Steph as the new co-host of The Bike Shed! Chris and Steph discuss their experiences using React, TypeScript, and Angular. Angular Backbone BDD Elm Ember ES6 HTTP Javascript Python Rails React RSJX TDD Typescript Vue Support The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Chris is joined by Lin Clark and Till Schneidereit of Mozilla to discuss all things WebAssembly. Lin and Till are helping to lead the development and advocacy around WebAssembly and in this conversation they discuss the current state of WASM, new developments like the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI), and the longer term possibilities and goals for WASM. Lin Clark Till Schneidereit Code Cartoons WebAssembly Rust TC39 JavaScript committee W3C WebAssembly WebIDL Rust wasm toolchain Babel Emscripten Asm.js Figma WASI Web Assembly System Interface wasmtime Fastly CDN Lucet - Fastly's WASM Runtime Solomon Hykes tweet re: Docker & WASM+WASI The Birth & Death of JavaScript Lin’s post on Post MVP future for WASM Mozilla hacks blog WebAssembly's Post MVP Future talk by Lin Clark and Till Schneidereit Support The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Chris is joined by Mike Burns, developer in our New York studio, to discuss the ins and outs of application security. Mike recently added a comprehensive Application Security Guide to the thoughtbot guides, and in this chat they discuss some of the high points of the guide, some of the low points of common security holes, and some of the fantastically specific workflows and approaches Mike has for his personal information and security management. Mike Burns on Mastodon Mike Burns on the thoughtbot blog Application Security Guide YAML JSON TOML Bcrypt Scrypt TLS Handshake explained with paint colors NIST - Digital Identity Guidelines Clearance DKIM & SPF for email verification PGP Signing of Emails PGP Signing git Commits Facebook Stored Millions Of Passwords In Plaintext PhishMe (now Cofense) Mutt email client YubiKey Pass pwgen LastPass Perfect Forward Secrecy Tarsnap Support The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Chris is joined by Edward Loveall, former thoughtbot design apprentice and now thoughtbot developer. After a quick chat about Edward's thoughtbot origin story, podcasts, and DNS, they dig into the heart of the conversation talking about their respective "must have" developer tools on new machines. edwardloveall.com thoughtbot apprenticeship Domain Name Sanity Heroku DNSimple Amazon Route53 Giant Robots podcast Edward's episode on Giant Robots talking about the apprenticeship Tweet about using a podcast as internal onboarding Hammerspoon Slate Spectacle Divvy Vim Tmux VSCode Live share tmate Alfred Alfred clipboard AppleScript Arch Linux Jeff Goldblum iMac Commercials Feedly Feedbin ReadKit JSON Feed CSS & Privacy - Why can’t I set the font size of a visited link? Lobsters Thank you to CircleCI for sponsoring this episode.Support The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Chris is joined by Sid Raval, developer in our New York studio. Chris and Sid chat about functional programming, strong types, and accessibility. Along the way they touch on TypeScript, Haskell, Scala, Elm, and plenty in between. They round out the conversation with a discussion around accessibility and developer tools. Ruby Haskell Scala Elm GHCJS Reflex (frp library for Hasekll) Scala.js TypeScript How Elm Slays a UI Antipattern RemoteData library in Elm Sid's blog post on gradually adding flow QuickCheck library for haskell Sorbet - Ruby static type annotations Sids' blog post - Grouping elements for better accessibility Thank you to CircleCI for sponsoring this episode.Support The Bike Shed

Chris is joined by Devon Zuegel who recently joined GitHub in the new Open Source Product Manager role. Devon and Chris discuss the complexities inherent to open source including funding models, managing motivation and burnout, different open source models, and end with a discussion around how we can be better open source citizens, both as consumers and maintainers. Devon on Twitter Devon's Blog Nadia Eghbal - Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure Patreon Sindre Sorhus on Patreon Open Collective ESLint on Open Collective Webpack on Open Collective Babel on Open Collective Sidekiq Pro GraphQL Pro GitHub related issues Clojure Rich Hickey Elm Evan Czaplicki Matz replies to post around Ruby moving slowly Open Source Maintainers Group on GitHub Thank you to CircleCI for sponsoring this episode.Support The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Chris is joined by Alex Sullivan, mobile developer in our Boston office. Alex takes Chris on a tour of the mobile landscape comparing the core native platforms (Android and iOS), the languages, developer tooling and IDEs, and fundamental thinking. They also dip into a discussion around React Native highlighting some of its strengths, as well as areas where native still clearly wins. Finally they touch on Flutter, the newest entrant into the mobile space to round out the discussion. Runkeeper Android iOS ViewModel Room Java Kotlin Objective C Swift Scala JetBrains Type erasure Reified types Android Studio Xcode AppCode Gary Bernhardt React Native Xamarin Flutter Dart Alex's post comparing performance of native, Flutter, and React Native Thank you to CircleCI for sponsoring this episode.Support The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Chris is joined by Steph Viccari to chat about Steph's recent experience working on the Hubspot API ruby wrapper as a client project. They discuss strategies for testing third-party APIs, focusing on VCR and some of the benefits and trade-offs inherent to that style of API testing. Following that they chat about using exceptions for control flow, digging into why this seems to be a common pattern in Ruby API wrappers, what the alternatives are, and even a quick tour to React-land where this pattern is being used for interesting effect. Hubspot ruby gem VCR Cucumber Mystery Guests Rspec mocks Faking APIs in Development and Staging Capybara Discoball Upcase - Testing Third Party APIs Fake stripe Principle of least surprise Time boxing JavaScript Promises React.Suspense Dan Abramov Introducing React Suspense at JSConf Iceland Support The Bike Shed