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Amanda and Sean discuss talk prep and slide envy before diving in to Kotlin 1.0.5, UTF-8 identifiers in programming, and responsive layouts in Android. Expandable RecyclerViews and You - Amanda's DroidCon talk. Deckset How to Talk to Developers Is UTF-8 a Racist Kludge or Stroke of Genius? Senior Android Developer at thoughtbot in New York City Kotlin 1.0.5 Build a Responsive UI with ConstraintLayout Support The Bike Shed

We talk about a widespread DNS outage and what steps you might take to avoid or limit your application's exposure to these things in the future. Deprecate the behavior of AR::Dirty inside of after_(create|update|save) callbacks Distributed Denial of Service attack on DNS Provider Dyn What is an ALIAS Record? ANAME records Why can't a CNAME record be used at the apex (aka root) of a domain? Avoid using non-standard DNS entries Is Your Site Leaking Password Reset Links? with Comments from Hacker News Support The Bike Shed

Derek chats with Ian Anderson about developing a mobile app for iOS and Android with React Native. Ian on Twitter Purple (T)Rain GenServer Agent React Native Flow Elm Native UI React Native Web Support The Bike Shed

We briefly ponder the very nature of our existence before discussing edge cases and interesting bugs encountered in ActiveRecord. Podcast Patreon Survey We May Be Living Inside a Black Hole Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? The R-7 Rocket Family Computing Glitch May Have Doomed Mars lander ActiveRecord’s from method ActiveRecord’s where.not method ActiveRecord’s WhereClause class Let’s fix deep_munge Object-relation impedance mismatch Support The Bike Shed

What do we look for when reviewing job applications, interviewing candidates, and pairing with prospective co-workers? thoughtbot Podcast Listener Survey Yarn: A new package manager for JavaScript About NPM Jobs at thoughtbot LAMP Stack recruitment in GitHub Issues The fruits of Derek’s FactoryGirl pairing session The Infield Fly Rule Support The Bike Shed

Sean encounters a roadblock in updating Diesel to use Rust’s new soon-to-be-stabilized procedural macros. Derek and Sean discuss the most recent CVE filed for Bundler, which is a lot like the previous CVE filed for Bundler. Diesel 0.8.0 Derive Rust Macros 1.1 CSS Support in GMail GMail REST API Bundler’s Multiple Source Security Vulnerability Bundler Response Listener Survey Support The Bike Shed

We discuss the problems with getting a CVE and the new lightning fast search tool, ripgrep. Sandwiched between those topics, we dive into the colonization of Mars. Yes, that's right, Mars. Podcast Patreon Survey Clearance password reset fix iwantacve.org Over 6,000 vulnerabilities went unassigned by MITRE's CVE project in 2015 Handling Security Issues in Open Source Projects by Tute Costa Elon Musk unveils plan to colonise Mars SpaceX Jobs Red Dragon Spacecraft NASA Orion Major Malfunction: Revisiting Challenger ripgrep is faster than {grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift} 111 Rg A pleasant HackerNews comment thread Support The Bike Shed

Derek and Sean talk through how to handle a security vulnerability that was reported for Clearance, a user authentication library. Cardboard Jankowski Prevent password reset token leak via HTTP referer The Meta Referrer Tag CVE Bundler Audit Ruby Advisory Database Ruby security announcement mailing list Destroy All Software Support The Bike Shed

What's appropriate for a web middleware stack to provide? Does Rack do too much? Plus, our thoughts on NeoVim and Vim 8. Futures-RS My Life With NeoVim Vim 8 Asynchronous functions patch discussion gitsh Xi Editor Stop saying "the ____ monad" Support The Bike Shed

Derek and Sean talk through some complex SQL before they examine the calluses developed from years of writing software on OS X. Press 1 for Lobby Ransack EXTRACT Pivot Tables crosstab Derek’s crosstab Query Window Functions Set Returning Functions Uninstall All Installed Gems on OS X Support The Bike Shed