258: Digital Gardeners
On this week's episode, Steph and Chris discuss a git-blame feature that supports bypassing less helpful commits. They also revisit a discussion about Dependabot PRs and recent performance adjustments...
1 Sep 202041min
257: How Late On a Friday Can You Deploy?
On this week's episode, Steph & Chris take a deep dive into all things technical debt. How do you know when your code has reached "good enough"? When might we purposefully knowingly take on technical ...
18 Aug 202050min
256: Rational Pessimism
On this week's episode, Chris shares his recent adventures of working with a team that prioritizes async-first communication and Steph revisits a previous discussion around the use of web sockets and ...
11 Aug 202046min
255: Aiming for 'Capable'
On this week's episode, Steph and Chris chat about the relatively new Rails view_component library from GitHub, Steph talks about her work with Storybook as part of extracting and defining a design sy...
4 Aug 202028min
254: Listener Mailbag Roundup Rodeo
On this week's episode, Steph celebrates passing an important test and discovers an API that returns different data than it's provided while Chris asks the important bikeshed question "What is the pro...
28 Juli 202042min
253: Find Yourself Through The Art of Podcast
On this week's episode, Steph and Chris have a brief chat about Snowpack, a new and ultra-speedy bundler in the front-end world, and revisit a conversation around namespacing models in Rails. The conv...
21 Juli 202046min
252: I'm a Designer Now
On this week's episode, Steph and Chris discuss leveraging the Unix utility sed to search files and remove unnecessary test setup, using Vim's Arglist to create a to-do list for file edits, and budget...
14 Juli 202054min
251: Absent-Minded Whistling
On this week's episode, Steph and Chris discuss using JSONB to store survey responses and the differences between JSON and JSONB, using (or not using!) exceptions in Ruby and the fail keyword, the pro...
7 Juli 202037min
