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We discuss complexity and progressive disclosure, garbage collection, and the impenetrable nature of Git. Chris Lattner on Accidental Tech Podcase Simple Made Easy Garbage Collection was a feature of Objective-C 2.0 The listen gem breaks my laptop Go GC: Prioritizing low latency and simplicity Modern Garbage Collection which calls out the tradeoffs of Go's approach WebKit’s Retreating Wavefront Concurrent Garbage Collector The Joel Test Tig: text-mode interface for Git Thank you to our sponsor this week, FreshBooks!Support The Bike Shed

We wonder why writing parameterized associations in Rails is not easy, and discuss the difficulty in eliminating no-op queries in ActiveRecord. Plus, we discuss how you can give a great RailsConf talk proposal that doesn't have anything to do with Rails. RequestStore The IDs writer patch Derek sent Sean Skunk Works by Nickolas Means It’s a Total Hack The Bike Shed episode inspired by Skunk Works Hanami Thank you to our sponsor this week, FreshBooks!Support The Bike Shed

Baby Ruby, Ruby refinements, Rails discoverability, and annoying polyfills. Refinements Refinements in Rails Remove required field polyfill from Rails-UJS Safari is the New IE Safari isn't the new IE: it's the user-centric web - "Send me onesies!" Thank you to our sponsor this week, FreshBooks!Support The Bike Shed

Amanda is joined by Morgane Santos to discuss the experiences, technology, and development of Virtual Reality. VR For Burn Relief Vive Maya for Beginners GoogleVR Dev Resources GitHub Game Off Get Cardboard Gray Area Thank you to our sponsor this week, FreshBooks!Support The Bike Shed

We discuss the pain of custom inputs in HTML, ActiveRecord bugs, and Rust's Fire Flower. Sean’s Haircut Select2 Query with 'exists' subquery fails to bind parameters Rocket Diesel JSON data type Rust is More Than Safety Safety is Rust’s Fire Flower Fire Flowers and Marios: Marketing Rust Thank you to our sponsor this week, FreshBooks!Support The Bike Shed

The impact of codes of conduct on community behavior, shipping a mobile app written in Elm, and yet more to say on SemVer. Diesel 0.9 Change Default Primary Keys to BIGINT The Rust Code of Conduct Ruby Code of Conduct issue Rails Code of Conduct thoughtbot Code of Conduct Disabling submit on invalid forms without JavaScript Purple Train Elm Native React Native Our earlier episode on Purple Train and React Native Homebrew SemVer issue Support The Bike Shed

We discuss the sneaky performance differences between present?, any?, blank? and empty? with ActiveRecord, when N+1 is a "feature", and the future of Diesel. An awesome gif Justin Trudeau’s Shopify selfie The Toonie Slow Counting in Postgres N+1 is a Feature Managing dependencies with Rails’ Russian doll caching Postgres Upsert Support The Bike Shed and other thoughtbot podcasts Support The Bike Shed

Derek briefly complains of the staleness of the asset pipeline in Rails 5, before Sean catches Derek up on Rails 5.1's support for Webpack, Yarn, and ES6. We also discuss the pain of deprecations in the upgrade to Rails 5. Can I Use: HTML 5 validations checkValidity() ESLint Rails 5.1 can use Webpack and Yarn A Tour of Rails’ jQuery UJS How Does Origin Pull Work? PaperTrail Rails 5.1 pull request A shim for Rails 5 controller tests Support The Bike Shed

We discuss adventures with shared mutable state in Elixir before turning to our thoughts on mocking HTTP interaction and how our approaches may differ depending on the language we’re using. How to Solve a Rubik’s Cube GenServer Agent Mocks and Explicit Contracts by José Valim VCR and exvcr actual radio buttons Support The Bike Shed

Ashley Williams joins the show to discuss NPM, Yarn, and the general package manager ecosystem. Ashley Williams Yarn yarn install--flat Peer Dependency --override for Elixir dependencies npm shrinkwrap Clarifying the Roles of the .gemspec and Gemfile Zero One Infinity READMEs mansplain CocoaPods' impact on GitHub npmCamp 2016 Panel - Package Managers: Before and After npm Node Together A Very Brief Intro to Rust Support The Bike Shed