510: Technical Debt is Technically Risk
Debt metaphors abound! In this week’s episode of The Bike Shed, Aji and Joel ponder the question, what are risks in a code base? From looking at technical risk as a different lens on the idea of tech...
13 Okt 36min
509: Bringing Back Rails Generators with Rachel Wright-Munn
Joël takes Bike Shed out onto the conference floor at RailsWorld as he interviews programer and streamer Rachael Wright-Munn, aka ChaelCodes. Rachael talks about her efforts to index all ruby events ...
6 Okt 23min
508: The Wonders of Static Analysis
In this week’s episode of The Bike Shed, Aji and Joël dive into the distrust around the phrase ‘programmer discipline’, why you cannot just rely on willpower, and how Static Analysis tools can help wi...
29 Sep 42min
507: Stacked Vertical Slices
The Bike Shed is BACK! Aji and Joel kick off this week’s episode with a fantastic combination of component bugs and how much headspace they take up, historic heraldry vs ChatGPT’S anchoring bias, befo...
15 Sep 44min
506: The Muppet Software Team
It’s time to play the music, it’s time to… get Aji and Sally together again. This week’s episode is a radical one, and a listener suggestion no less; let’s Muppet-cast a software development team! Wh...
14 Jul 38min
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
