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39: Okay with Instability (Yehuda Katz) Nov 11, 2015

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We talk with Yehuda Katz about how much risk is right for you and your app, the sharp tools of high level abstractions, and how our statistical intuition leads us astray on web performance.

Remove The Stress, Pick a Deadline
Writing Software by DHH
Skylight
The Log Normal Reality - On how our statistical intuition leads us astray.
Yehuda on Twitter

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38: Ugh, Forms Nov 03, 2015

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Laila and Derek discuss how they have handled forms with complex validation requirements and how to make these forms have a smooth user experience.

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37: The Web is Faster Without Garbage Oct 29, 2015

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Begun, the ad block wars have. Derek debugs an issue that arises from iOS ad blocking and wonders if analytics will move back to the server side. Sean fills us in on how dirty checking works in ActiveRecord and how he's making it faster and better in Rails 5.

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36: Python Unchained Oct 15, 2015

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Derek and Laila talk about learning Python and Django and discuss how thoughtbot adopts new languages, frameworks, and libraries. What factors influence adoption? How do we share what works and doesn't work?

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35: GitHub Ate My Résumé Oct 07, 2015

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Sean and Derek explain why you should always use a personal email address in your Git configuration before they dive into Ruby exception handling, and potential MRI proc optimizations.

Set your Git email address to an address you own "forever".
Git .mailmap
Jobs at thoughtbot
rest-client
Ruby's Kernel#raise documentation
Ruby's Exception#cause documentation
Spring overrides raise, but feels uneasy about it.
Exceptional Ruby by Avdi Grim.
Proc#=== documentation.
Upcase: 50% Off Your First Month For Bike Shed Listeners!

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34: README.md Sep 29, 2015

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Derek is joined by Laila Winner to discuss Neo4j, the importance of fantastic documentation, and the different types of documentation a project requires.

PLIBMTTBHGATY
Neo4j
Teach, Don't Tell
Let's talk about ecosystem documentation - Grading documentation of the top 40 crates in Rust.
FactoryGirl Getting Started
Clearance SignInGuard documentation
Rails Security Guide
Jobs at thoughtbot
Laila on Twitter

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33: Just Put it in a Module, Man Sep 22, 2015

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Sean and Derek take some listener questions, and dig into DRY.

Thanks for sending us your questions and feedback. Got more? You can email us at hosts@bikeshed.fm or tweet us.

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32: Bug For Bug Compatibility Sep 15, 2015

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Derek and Sean discuss Microsoft's interest in open source, improving the Rails development story on Windows, and Sean's progress implementing an ORM in Rust.

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31: Oxidizing an ORM Sep 08, 2015

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Are provably correct queries of interest to you? Sean gives a rundown of what a Rusty ORM might be like to build.

String, str, and CStr.
What's a marker trait?
Rust macros.
Rust compiler plugins.
hy·gien·ic ˌhī-ˈjē-nik, -ˈje- also -jē-ˈe-nik
Sean's ORM query thoughts

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30: Just Go to Slash Wibble Sep 01, 2015

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Derek and Sean discuss hypothetical changes to Rails routing before turning their attention toward hunting memory bloat and the proposal that strings be frozen by default in Ruby 3.

The Bike Shed listeners make disable_with default on submit_tag
Derek tries to explain the trouble with unrestricted routes to a client.
The trouble with singular resources and form_for
Use derailed benchmarks to find memory leaks and bloat.
ActiveRecord memory bloat
Matz: String literals frozen by default in Ruby 3
The issue for discussion because Twitter is terrible for these things.
The trouble with symbols
Required keyword argument syntax is ugly.

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