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On this week's episode, Steph gets Chris to share his biggest developer regrets over the years. They also revisit a favorite topic of estimation and story points, and round out the conversation with some details from the world of application security.ActiveSupport secure_compare and fixed_length_secure_comparethoughtbot's Application security guidePepper (cryptography)How did this complicated RegEx come to be? (Derek's tweet)Vim RFactoryWhat I Believe About Software - Bike Shed episode 172Say No To More Process blog postSupport The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Chris catches us up on his latest keyboard adventures and Steph shares her first impression of working with Ember.They also dive into Chris's experience triaging errors Sentry, their love for Elm, how teams achieve a consistent velocity, and Steph's upcoming workshop on how to stay agile when building a healthcare product. To bring it home, they respond to a listener who's wondering when is it a good idea to convert a loose data structure (e.g.: hash) into a class?PrettierSentryFree Workshop - How to stay agile when building compliant health tech productsIf you're enjoying The Bike Shed, we'd love it if you could give it a rating or review on iTunes. Thanks!Support The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Chris and Steph discuss identifying refactoring opportunities by highlighting overly coupled code and Chris announces that he has advanced his vim setup into the 21st century by making the switch to Neovim. Types of CouplingHuskyConquer of Completion PluginDive Into Neovim on UpcaseMastering the Vim LanguageOnramp to VimPostgres Check ConstraintsSupport The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Steph and Chris dive into the world of crafting pull requests for optimal code review, as well as the flip side of providing code review. How can we make it easy for reviewers, and as reviewers, how can we make it easy for our teammates to incorporate our suggestions?They also discuss the world of testing, from integration to visual to unit testing, and some of the tools an practices they use at each level.Lastly, they discuss Steph's continued pairing adventures and possibly finding her max on the pairing front, a quick update on mechanical keyboards, and Steph shares a teaser of an upcoming workshop she'll be hosting around how to stay agile when building health tech products.This episode of The Bike Shed is sponsored by Honeybadger.XKCD - Crazy Straws Fractal SubgroupsKeyboard MaestroBrett Terpstra - Hyper KeyBrett Terpstra - A Useful Caps Lock KeyVimium chrome extensionTuple apptestcafeCypressPercy.ioJest screenshotsReact Testing LibraryEnzymeReact hooksthoughtbot Health Tech Online Workshop (hosted by Steph!)If you're enjoying The Bike Shed, we'd love it if you could give it a rating or review on iTunes. Thanks!Support The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Chris and Steph catch up on recent client adventures, revisit their feelings on using let in rspec, and spend a bit of time outside their respective comfort zones. There's also some talk about nearly full-time pairing, mechanical keyboards, debugging thorny datetime issues, and how we interact with our developer tools and workflows.This episode of The Bike Shed is sponsored by Honeybadger.Tuple (remote pairing app)Leopold 660 with Cherry MX BrownsHusky - "git hooks made easy"Cassidy Williams eslint video tweetFlipper "disable fun mode"Let’s Not - Rspec blog postThe Zen of PythonIf you're enjoying The Bike Shed, we'd love it if you could give it a rating or review on iTunes. Thanks!Support The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Chris and Steph chat about their new client projects, VimScript, and ways to automate refreshing materialized views in tests. They also play the game Overrated/Underrated, created by Tyler Owen, and respond to a CS student who is feeling overwhelmed by the various technologies and looking to transition from tutorials to meaningful projects.This episode of The Bike Shed is sponsored by Honeybadger.thoughtbot dotfilesctrlp.vimFZFLearn Vimscript the Hard Waythoughtbot laptop scriptscenicConversations with TylerShopTalk ShowDeadlinesThe Real Story Behind Story PointsIf you're enjoying The Bike Shed, we'd love it if you could give it a rating or review on iTunes. Thanks!Support The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Steph catches us up on her ever-growing collection of mechanical keyboards, Chris talks about his recent purchase of an apple watch, and they follow up a previous discussion around case-sensitivity (or insensitivity) in URLs and email addresses. They round out the discussion with a chat about writing blog posts and some postgres fun, and finally discuss the merits and drawbacks of monorepos.This episode of The Bike Shed is sponsored by Honeybadger.MechanicalKeyboards.comFrozen LLama Ducky KeyboardApple WatchWithings WatchPostgres Citext (Case-Insensitive text field type)Chris's blog post on Sharing Query Logic Within ActiveRecord ModelsMatt Sumner's Post on DeadlinesOn Writing by Stephen KingThe War of ArtMonorepos: Please don’t!Monorepo: please do!Lerna - toll for monorepo management in javascriptIf you're enjoying The Bike Shed, we'd love it if you could give it a rating or review on iTunes. Thanks!Support The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Steph is joined by Brittany Martin, an avid Rubyist and the host of the Ruby on Rails Podcast. They discuss Brittany's passion for roller derby and her upcoming Ruby conference talk: "Hire Me, I'm Excellent at Quitting." They also discuss using AWS Serverless, troubleshooting Postgress connection errors and working with Google Pay and Apple Wallet to introduce digital tickets.@BrittJMartin - Brittany on TwitterRuby on Rails PodcastRubyConf 2019 - Hire Me: I'm Excellent at QuittingBikeshedding with Steph ViccariTN Inspire! "Ramping Up With Roller Derby"RubyConf MY - Rails Against the MachineRuby on Rails on Windows is not just possible, it's fabulous using WSL2 and VS CodeAmazon Aurora ServerlessNate Berkopec - Speed ShopSupport The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Steph shares an update on her mechanical keyboard adventures and provides a summary for the Ruby pipeline operator being reverted. Chris gets Steph's opinion on a possible improvement around using materialized views in tests and describes a recent debugging adventure he and Steph went on. They also discuss a listener question regarding encouraging companies to use Ruby and Rails and asking how we identify ourselves as developers. Finally, they round out the conversation with a clarification around public vs private GraphQL APIs.Leopold 660 KeyboardTopre Silent KeysKeychron K2Postgres Materialized ViewsScenic - Database Views Library for RailsRails Cache Null StoreRuby Pipeline Operator RevertedActiveModel::ModelSpring Rails PreloaderRuby :method source_locationIf you're enjoying The Bike Shed, we'd love it if you could give it a rating or review on iTunes. Thanks!Support The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Steph recounts an issue with an email client that lowercases URLs and Chris ponders the art of logging and using structured logs. They also highlight a plugin that improves TypeScript support in Vim, how the Pinterest team celebrates the "retirement" of code, and respond to a listener who is debating between refactoring their app or investing in a full rewrite.TopreLeopold FC660C KeyboardCherry MX SwitchesActiveSupport::MessageVerifierClearanceDeviseActiveSupport Message verifier with double slash troubleOWASPReact Podcast - Chris Toomey on TypeScript, GraphQL, and Product ThinkingWe Will Never Know Enough (Michael Chan)ActiveSupport::TaggedLoggingStructured LoggingConquer of Completion - Make your vim/neovim as smart as VSCodeThe Dead Code SocietyIf you're enjoying The Bike Shed, we'd love it if you could give it a rating or review on iTunes. Thanks!Support The Bike Shed