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
259: That's Not How Numbers Work
On this week's episode, Steph and Chris tackle the thorny topic of 10X engineers. Do we think they really exist? What characteristics make an individual more effective, and more importantly, what can ...
8 Sep 202048min
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
