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Complexity vs Functionality, Validations vs Database Constraints, plus whatever a Cap'n Proto is. Second Quests in Zelda Games 5 Useful Tips For A Better Commit Message Sean’s rocket equations Atlas Rocket Family Removed deprecated mathn extentions is targeted for Ruby 2.5 Complexity and Strategy How to Build a Skyscrapper Rein - database constraints for Rails Scenic - database views for Rails Validation, Database Constraint, or Both? The Perils of Uniqueness Validations Ecto Validations and Constraints Cap’n Proto Protocol Buffer WSDL Support The Bike Shed

Google's carrot-and-stick HTTPS policies and how playing The Legend of Zelda is like refactoring. Google Will Soon Shame All Websites That Are Unencrypted HSTS Super Mario Bros. 3 right-side scroll artifacts How the Nintendo NES Zapper Worked, and Why It Doesn’t Work On HDTVs NES R.O.B reverse dependencies query Snipperclips Second Quests in Zelda Games Brickseek Support The Bike Shed

When a hash isn't a hash, GitHub as your Résumé, and porting Crates.io to Diesel. ActionController::Parameters should implement reverse_merge Expression-oriented programming language Jobs at thoughtbot Set up the groundwork for a port to Diesel Window Functions Remove the max_version column from Crates Support The Bike Shed

Going "to" the moon, hidden type errors in our Rails apps, the process of talk prep, and the S3 outage. SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Retro looking rendering of SLS git push && git paid Rocket My Process for Writing a Talk by Eileen Uchitelle Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region Chaos Monkey Support The Bike Shed

Amanda and Sean discuss the evolving stages of open source projects, native apps vs web apps, and space. AppVeyor Electron Xamarin is the Microsoft-owned cross-platform mobile application company. NASA TRAPPIST 1 Announcement Spaceflight Now Write/Speak/Code Thank you to our sponsor this week, FreshBooksSupport The Bike Shed

Sam Phippen helps us celebrate episode 100, as we discuss Diesel bugs, REST, RPC, and more. Diesel LEFT JOINS bug Google Spanner Information Schema Standard Spanner Beta Paper HTML5 formaction Must be Willing to Relocate to San Francisco GRPC Protocol Buffers The Listen gem breaks my laptop Thank you to our sponsor this week, FreshBooks!Support The Bike Shed

We go into the weeds with MySQL and discuss the virtues of database migrations written in SQL. Big and little endian mysql_real_escape_string Should we set CLIENT_IGNORE_SIGPIPE for MySQL? Why Uber Switched From Postgres to MySQL Default Primary Keys Are Now BIGINT Using reversible in migrations Gary's tweet Thank you to our sponsor this week, FreshBooks!Support The Bike Shed

We discuss complexity and progressive disclosure, garbage collection, and the impenetrable nature of Git. Chris Lattner on Accidental Tech Podcase Simple Made Easy Garbage Collection was a feature of Objective-C 2.0 The listen gem breaks my laptop Go GC: Prioritizing low latency and simplicity Modern Garbage Collection which calls out the tradeoffs of Go's approach WebKit’s Retreating Wavefront Concurrent Garbage Collector The Joel Test Tig: text-mode interface for Git Thank you to our sponsor this week, FreshBooks!Support The Bike Shed

We wonder why writing parameterized associations in Rails is not easy, and discuss the difficulty in eliminating no-op queries in ActiveRecord. Plus, we discuss how you can give a great RailsConf talk proposal that doesn't have anything to do with Rails. RequestStore The IDs writer patch Derek sent Sean Skunk Works by Nickolas Means It’s a Total Hack The Bike Shed episode inspired by Skunk Works Hanami Thank you to our sponsor this week, FreshBooks!Support The Bike Shed

Baby Ruby, Ruby refinements, Rails discoverability, and annoying polyfills. Refinements Refinements in Rails Remove required field polyfill from Rails-UJS Safari is the New IE Safari isn't the new IE: it's the user-centric web - "Send me onesies!" Thank you to our sponsor this week, FreshBooks!Support The Bike Shed