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Sean runs through a Rails bug that sits at the intersection of several magical and confusing Rails features. accepts_nested_attributes_for inverse_of autosave The proposed fix for 5.1.0 Datomic Support The Bike Shed

Leading Rails contributor Rafael Franca joins us from RailsConf to talk about taking over Sprockets, the future of the asset pipeline in Rails, managing Rails dependencies, and the hard work of software maintenance. Rafael Franca Rails Contributors Sprockets Reintroducing gzip file generation in Sprockets LibSass is Sass in C (and fast) Spriting with Compass Rails Assets is not Dead turbograft TC39 Sean said you'd all "definitely" have the final build of Rails 5 by now. Whoops!Support The Bike Shed

We talk with Terence Lee of Heroku, Bundler, and mruby-cli fame about Apache Kafka and the future of mruby scripting. Terence Lee Kafka I Can’t Believe It’s Not A Queue: Using Kafka with Rails - Terence’s RailsConf talk. mruby mruby-cli Traveling Ruby Keep Ruby Weird Support The Bike Shed

While at RailsConf, we talk with Katrina Owen about finding metaphors for software development, the successes and mistakes of Exercism.io, and the benefits of providing code reviews. Katrina Owen Katrina's conference talks Make the change easy, then make the easy change Skunk Works by Nickolas Means Factory, Workshop, Stage by Sarah Mei The Product Design Sprint Exercism.io Exercism GitHub Organization Support The Bike Shed

Open Mic is back by popular demand, this time in San Francisco. We hear from developers in thoughtbot's San Francisco office about their recent investment time projects. Croniker Monica Dinculescu on emoji Gabe learns about emoji on Twitter thoughtbot blog Fear of missing out on Wikipedia FOMObot Design Sprint Tropos Gabe Berke-Williams on Twitter Tony DiPasquale on Twitter Amanda Hill on Twitter Support The Bike Shed

Derek and Sean discuss some recent issues with exciting language features like pattern matching, macros, and static types. Pattern Matching Primitive Obsession Stringly Typed Sean's open source programming streams Sean's Twitch channel Support The Bike Shed

Sean celebrates Diesel reaching "faster than a SQL string" status before we chat about Rails 5 blockers and the clarity of focus and priorities that only shipping can bring. Make Diesel faster than a SQL String How can an ORM be faster than a SQL string? ActionSupport::Executor and ActionSupport::Reloader APIs "I strongly discourage the use of autoload in any standard libraries” Support The Bike Shed

"Send me an email every year for my birthday" is an easy thing for a human to understand but it can be deceptively tricky to do with computers. Also tricky for (some) computers: SELECT * FROM. Wait... what? DATE_PART or EXTRACT Triggers Using EXPLAIN Using ANALYZE VACUUM Derek's (mostly useless) Approximately Gem Support The Bike Shed

KF (Katherine Fellows) joins the show to chat about successful BridgeFoundry events and creating environments where remote developers, junior and otherwise, can thrive. KF Clojure / West ClojureBridge BridgeFoundry Self Conference Conway's Law Negativity Bias PLIBMTTBHGATY Support The Bike Shed

Derek and Sean discuss the left-pad saga, how other programming communities are reacting to it, and what you should learn from it as a library or application author. Bash on Ubuntu on Windows I’ve Just Liberated My Modules by Azer Koçulu A discussion about the breaking of the internet (Kik’s side of the story) by Mike Roberts Kik, left-pad, and npm by Isaac Z. Schlueter from npm npm Package Hijacking: From the Hijackers Perspective by Nathan Johnson Is gem yank a security concern? Kill Your Dependencies by Mike Perham To gem, or not to gem by Elle Meredith changes to npm’s unpublish policy by Ashley Williams from npm ApplicationRecord in Rails 5 Thank you to Hired for sponsoring this episode!Support The Bike Shed