190: Going Steady With a Platform
On this week's episode, Chris is joined by Alex Sullivan, mobile developer in our Boston office. Alex takes Chris on a tour of the mobile landscape comparing the core native platforms (Android and iOS...
15 Mar 201952min
189: It's Gonna Work, Definitely, No Problems Whatsoever
On this week's episode, Chris is joined by Steph Viccari to chat about Steph's recent experience working on the Hubspot API ruby wrapper as a client project. They discuss strategies for testing third-...
1 Mar 201941min
188: A Function by Any Other Name
On this week's episode, Chris is joined by German Velasco for a conversation that fully lives up to the name of the show with plenty of opinions and impressively deep dives on topics that folks outsid...
22 Feb 201938min
187: Convincing People Not to Build Software
On this week's episode, Chris is joined by Matt Sumner, development director in our Boston Studio. Chris & Matt start with a quick update on Matt's crypto adventures, and then transition to the core o...
15 Feb 201941min
186: Let's Duplicate Stuff
On this week's episode, Chris is joined by Daniel Colson, developer in our New York studio and current maintainer of all things FactoryBot. Chris & Daniel discuss Daniel's work as maintainer of one of...
1 Feb 201938min
185: The Transactional Fallacy (Avdi Grimm)
On this week's episode, Chris is joined by Ruby Hero Avdi Grimm. They discuss Avdi's history of guiding the Ruby and broader programming communities, his thoughts about where we're at with object-orie...
25 Jan 201935min
184: Fun, Interesting, and I Wouldn't Recommend It
On this week's episode, Chris is joined by Eebs Kobeissi, a developer in our Boston studio, for a discussion encompassing the front end, back end, and everything in between. They start by discussing E...
18 Jan 201941min
183: Former Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots (Ben Orenstein)
On this episode of the Bike Shed, Chris is joined by former thoughtbotter Ben Orenstein. Ben & team are currently feverishly working towards launching Tuple.app, an app for remote pair programming. Th...
11 Jan 201949min
