267: Shiny New Things
On this week's episode, Steph describes her unique new project where they're building and presenting a training course around RSpec, testing, and TDD specific to an organization's codebase. Chris then...
3 Nov 202048min
266: Spring is My Least Favorite Season
On this week's episode, Chris and Steph share mixed-feelings about Spring preloader and how to use Spring just for tests. They also dive into troubleshooting an OpenSSL error, Postgres generated colum...
27 Okt 202037min
265: There Are No Free Lunches
On this week's episode, Steph and Chris chat about database transactions and job queues, building static sites with GatsbyJS and NetlifyCMS, the performance impacts of front end frameworks and static ...
20 Okt 202046min
264: How to Win Friends and Influence Processes
On this week's episode Steph and Chris discuss the ins and outs of joining teams, building trust, and working together to improve processes and communication. They also touch on some lesser used featu...
13 Okt 202041min
263: Keeping The Night Brain At Bay (Dave Rupert)
Steph's taking a quick break this week, but in her absence, Chris is joined by Dave Rupert. Dave is the lead developer at Paravel, co-host of the Shop Talk Show podcast, creator of The Accessibility P...
6 Okt 202054min
262: Good Idea, Terrible Idea?
On this week's episode, Chris introduces a new segment called "Good Idea, Terrible Idea?" as he considers introducing a read-only mode to avoid interrupting users during scheduled downtime. Steph has ...
29 Sep 202052min
261: A Jenga Tower of Lets and Context
On this week's episode, Steph and Chris tackle a listener question around composition over inheritance, especially in the context of Rails which makes regular use of inheritance. Dependency injection,...
22 Sep 202052min
260: N+1s For Days
On this week's episode, Chris shares a tale of performance improvements and a recent discussion about replacing a REST API with GraphQL. Steph dives into migrating a database column to restrict input ...
15 Sep 202044min
