505: What is a “principal” or “staff” engineer?
Sally and Joël join forces to discuss the different ways to interpret the role of a ‘principle’ or ‘staff’ engineer, and the handwaving around what those titles mean in terms of the gradation. Whilst...
7 Jul 34min
504: AI Ethics (with guests!)
Aji is joined by thoughtbot’s own Tess Griffin and Jimmy Thigpen, two members of the recently established AI Ethics Taskforce, to talk about what kind of conversations are going on in the company arou...
30 Jun 32min
503: Seeing the Graph for the Trees
Aji and Joël join forces to discuss graph and tree structures, and their connection to the emergent properties, attributes and qualities you can find from a largely connected group of data. Joël dive...
23 Jun 41min
502: Apps That Make Our Work Go
Aji and Sally are back together again, this time to discuss the different apps they use to make their workflows and To Do lists easier and quicker to achieve. Sally dives into the Notion calendar sys...
16 Jun 40min
501: What makes for good technical writing?
Sally and Joël get technical as they lay out their thoughts on blog posts. Our hosts pick apart what makes a good technical blog post, why consistent terms are more important than you might think wh...
2 Jun 34min
500: Celebrating with past hosts
The Bike Shed celebrates its 500th episode with hosts new and old as they reflect on the show’s history and ask, what’s new in your world? Our past hosts look back at their time on the show, their f...
26 Mai 58min
499: BikeTube ShedTacular!
Take a trip through Joël and Aji’s YouTube recommended list as they go over the media that has inspired their work the most over the course of their careers. Our hosts highlight different creators t...
28 Apr 48min
498: Season 2 Recap
Our hosts come together to wrap up season 2 and share some of their highlights along the way. Our trio expand and recap on some key topics covered over the last few months, Sally and Joël provide up...
17 Mar 37min
