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While at RailsConf, we talk with Katrina Owen about finding metaphors for software development, the successes and mistakes of Exercism.io, and the benefits of providing code reviews. Katrina Owen Katrina's conference talks Make the change easy, then make the easy change Skunk Works by Nickolas Means Factory, Workshop, Stage by Sarah Mei The Product Design Sprint Exercism.io Exercism GitHub Organization Support The Bike Shed

Open Mic is back by popular demand, this time in San Francisco. We hear from developers in thoughtbot's San Francisco office about their recent investment time projects. Croniker Monica Dinculescu on emoji Gabe learns about emoji on Twitter thoughtbot blog Fear of missing out on Wikipedia FOMObot Design Sprint Tropos Gabe Berke-Williams on Twitter Tony DiPasquale on Twitter Amanda Hill on Twitter Support The Bike Shed

Derek and Sean discuss some recent issues with exciting language features like pattern matching, macros, and static types. Pattern Matching Primitive Obsession Stringly Typed Sean's open source programming streams Sean's Twitch channel Support The Bike Shed

Sean celebrates Diesel reaching "faster than a SQL string" status before we chat about Rails 5 blockers and the clarity of focus and priorities that only shipping can bring. Make Diesel faster than a SQL String How can an ORM be faster than a SQL string? ActionSupport::Executor and ActionSupport::Reloader APIs "I strongly discourage the use of autoload in any standard libraries” Support The Bike Shed

"Send me an email every year for my birthday" is an easy thing for a human to understand but it can be deceptively tricky to do with computers. Also tricky for (some) computers: SELECT * FROM. Wait... what? DATE_PART or EXTRACT Triggers Using EXPLAIN Using ANALYZE VACUUM Derek's (mostly useless) Approximately Gem Support The Bike Shed

KF (Katherine Fellows) joins the show to chat about successful BridgeFoundry events and creating environments where remote developers, junior and otherwise, can thrive. KF Clojure / West ClojureBridge BridgeFoundry Self Conference Conway's Law Negativity Bias PLIBMTTBHGATY Support The Bike Shed

Derek and Sean discuss the left-pad saga, how other programming communities are reacting to it, and what you should learn from it as a library or application author. Bash on Ubuntu on Windows I’ve Just Liberated My Modules by Azer Koçulu A discussion about the breaking of the internet (Kik’s side of the story) by Mike Roberts Kik, left-pad, and npm by Isaac Z. Schlueter from npm npm Package Hijacking: From the Hijackers Perspective by Nathan Johnson Is gem yank a security concern? Kill Your Dependencies by Mike Perham To gem, or not to gem by Elle Meredith changes to npm’s unpublish policy by Ashley Williams from npm ApplicationRecord in Rails 5 Thank you to Hired for sponsoring this episode!Support The Bike Shed

Should you rewrite or refactor? What should you consider as you weigh this decision and what exactly constitutes a rewrite anyway? Things You Should Never Do, Part I - Joel Spolsky on Software Rewrites What does the phrase "Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM" mean? When Understanding Means Rewriting by Jeff Atwood The Big Rewrite, revisited by DHH Thank you to Hired for sponsoring this episode!Support The Bike Shed

We chat with José Valim about bringing light to Elixir's dark corners, the design goals of Ecto, and the future of Elixir, Ecto, and Phoenix. José Valim on Twitter Introducing unifying calendar types to Elixir Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones by Lau Taarnskov mix deps.tree in Elixir 1.3 mix app.tree in Elixir 1.3 Ecto.Query.preload Working with Ecto Associations and Embeds by José Valim. Ecto.Changeset Ecto 2 beta is out, including concurrent database tests github_ecto: An Ecto adapter for the GitHub API. What Makes Phoenix Presence Special by Chris McCord ExMachina - test factories for Elixir GenRouter ElixirConf EU ElixirConf US Support The Bike Shed

Is ActiveRecord reinventing Sequel? If it is, does it matter? Derek and Sean discuss that and whether maybe we could all stand to tone down the JavaScript. ActiveRecord is Reinventing Sequel Ryan Bigg gives up his open source projects Maybe We Could Tone Down the JavaScript by Evee Stronger Parameters Mother F*cking Website Discourse Ember CLI Fastboot Introduction to HTML Imports TC39 Modernizr Can I Use: Date and Time Input Types Support The Bike Shed