42: That's Incredibly Ambitious (Grayson Wright)
We speak to Grayson Wright about building Administrate, an open source Rails framework for administrative interfaces. What makes Administrate different than existing solutions and what are the challen...
2 Dec 201537min
41: Ugh, I Have to Write Web Apps in This Thing
Derek and Sean talk about Derek's exploration into Elixir and Phoenix, when and how performance matters, and ways to keep your Rails app fast from day 1. The Elixir Programming Language Phoenix Web ...
25 Nov 201535min
40: ActiveRecord Deprecated Persistence
The ActiveRecord update API is a mess of methods that confuse even ActiveRecord’s maintainer. What are the problems and is there any hope for a solution? 40 Prevent Information leaking In Rails Diff...
18 Nov 201534min
39: Okay with Instability (Yehuda Katz)
We talk with Yehuda Katz about how much risk is right for you and your app, the sharp tools of high level abstractions, and how our statistical intuition leads us astray on web performance. Remove T...
11 Nov 20151h 7min
38: Ugh, Forms
Laila and Derek discuss how they have handled forms with complex validation requirements and how to make these forms have a smooth user experience. HTML Form Validations HTML5 Validation Browser Sup...
3 Nov 201540min
37: The Web is Faster Without Garbage
Begun, the ad block wars have. Derek debugs an issue that arises from iOS ad blocking and wonders if analytics will move back to the server side. Sean fills us in on how dirty checking works in Active...
29 Okt 201544min
36: Python Unchained
Derek and Laila talk about learning Python and Django and discuss how thoughtbot adopts new languages, frameworks, and libraries. What factors influence adoption? How do we share what works and doesn'...
15 Okt 201550min
35: GitHub Ate My Résumé
Sean and Derek explain why you should always use a personal email address in your Git configuration before they dive into Ruby exception handling, and potential MRI proc optimizations. Set your Git ...
7 Okt 201540min
