The Bike Shed

We chat with Justin Searls about testing, programmer personality types, programming communities, and putting spreadsheets on the Internet.

Amanda is joined by SF thoughtbot developers Tony, Josh, & Greg to discuss learning new languages (and whether developers should do that in their free time), machine learning, the future of AR/VR, and tech that strives to make a social difference.

We talk with Cecy Correa about how to hire and get hired.

We discuss a tiny DOS caused when upgrading thoughtbot.com to Rails 5.1 and how Rails could better surface warnings that only occur in your production configuration. We also get an update on multi-table joins in Rust.

We talk to Matt Casper about contributing to Diesel, Rust's ecosystem, and the next big thing.

Amanda joins Sean to discuss all the Android news to come out of Google I/O, Kotlin as a "first class language", and features of Android "O"!

We talk with Aaron Patterson about Ruby and Rails upgrades, and the goal of making Ruby 3 three times faster than Ruby 2.

What’s the deal with green potato chips? Also: RailsConf wrap up and an AST pass refactor for Diesel.

Follow up about Service Objects and Computer Engineering. Plus, RailsConf prep, code slide woes, and modal pop-ups.

Is your operating system hosed? That might be related to Rails! We also chat about the trend towards compiled languages.