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On The Bike Shed, hosts Joël Quenneville and Stephanie Minn discuss development experiences and challenges at thoughtbot with Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and whatever else is drawing their attention, admiration, or ire this week.
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April 15, 2025
<p>Joël and thoughtbot colleague Sally Hall set out to find an answer to the question, what exactly are the differences between paper data structures and digitals ones?</p> <p>They compare the different ways humans store and access data, from rolodexs to the dewey decimal system, browsing a system vs searching it, and how the digital age has changed the way we assess and look at data stored in those systems.</p> <p>—</p> <p><a href="https://www.rolodex.com/contact-management.html" rel="nofollow">Change your organisational workflow and get yourself a Rolodex!</a></p> <p>Find out more about the <a href="https://esu.libguides.com/dewey" rel="nofollow">Dewey Decimal System</a>. </p> <p>Your guest this week has been [Sally Hall](linkedin.com/in/sallyannahall), and your host for this episode has been thoughtbot’s own <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-quenneville-96b18b58/" rel="nofollow">Joël Quenneville</a>.</p> <p>If you would like to support the show, head over to our <a href="https://github.com/sponsors/thoughtbot" rel="nofollow">GitHub page</a>, or check out <a href="https://bikeshed.thoughtbot.com" rel="nofollow">our website</a>.</p> <p>Got a question or comment about the show? Why not write to our hosts: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" rel="nofollow">[email protected]</a></p> <p>This has been a <a href="https://thoughtbot.com/" rel="nofollow">thoughtbot</a> podcast. <br> Stay up to date by following us on social media - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@thoughtbot/streams" rel="nofollow">YouTube</a> - <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/150727/" rel="nofollow">LinkedIn</a> - <a href="https://thoughtbot.social/@thoughtbot" rel="nofollow">Mastodon</a> - <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/thoughtbot.com" rel="nofollow">BlueSky</a></p> <p>© 2025 thoughtbot, inc.</p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://github.com/sponsors/thoughtbot">Support The Bike Shed</a></p>
April 8, 2025
<p>Joël and fellow thoughtboter Aji Slater examine the unfamiliar world of <a href="https://www.typescriptlang.org/" rel="nofollow">Typescript</a> and various ways of working within it’s system. </p> <p>They lay out the pros and cons of Typescript over other environments such as Ruby and Elm and discuss their experience of adopting LLM partners to assist in their workflows. Utilising Chat GPT and Claude to verify code and trim down syntax, all while trying to appease the type checker. </p> <p>Discover the little tips, tricks and bad habits they picked up along the way while working with their LLM buddies in an effort to improve efficiency.</p> <p>—</p> <p><a href="https://www.ruby2d.com" rel="nofollow">Check out Ruby2D</a> for all your 2D app needs!</p> <p>You can connect with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/doodlingdev/" rel="nofollow">Aji via LinkedIn</a>, or check out some of the topics he’s written about over on <a href="https://thoughtbot.com/blog/authors/aji-slater" rel="nofollow">his thoughtbot blog</a>.</p> <p>Your host for this episode has been <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-quenneville-96b18b58/" rel="nofollow">Joël Quenneville</a>.</p> <p>If you would like to support the show, head over to our <a href="https://github.com/sponsors/thoughtbot" rel="nofollow">GitHub page</a>, or check out <a href="https://bikeshed.thoughtbot.com" rel="nofollow">our website</a>.</p> <p>Got a question or comment about the show? Why not write to our hosts: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" rel="nofollow">[email protected]</a></p> <p>This has been a <a href="https://thoughtbot.com/" rel="nofollow">thoughtbot</a> podcast. <br> Stay up to date by following us on social media - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@thoughtbot/streams" rel="nofollow">YouTube</a> - <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/150727/" rel="nofollow">LinkedIn</a> - <a href="https://thoughtbot.social/@thoughtbot" rel="nofollow">Mastodon</a> - <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/thoughtbot.com" rel="nofollow">Bluesky</a></p> <p>© 2025 thoughtbot, inc.</p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://github.com/sponsors/thoughtbot">Support The Bike Shed</a></p>
March 18, 2025
<p>Joël enlists the help of thoughtbot colleague Sally Hall as they dive into the complex world of time zones, daylight savings, measurements and coding.</p> <p>Together they discuss their struggles with daylight savings throwing off their recent project reporting, the constant struggles of writing for different time zones and why writing your own code is never worth the hassle, and the similar battle of writing for different units of measurement.</p> <p>—</p> <p>Check out the idea behind "<a href="https://javascriptweblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/05/if-hemingway-wrote-javascript-explained/" rel="nofollow">If Hemingway Wrote Javascript</a>" and how it could help you with your coding.</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY" rel="nofollow">Watch Tom Scott’s</a> own slow decent into madness over timezones and coding.</p> <p>Your guest this week has been <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sallyannahall" rel="nofollow">Sally Hall</a>, and your host for this episode has been thoughtbot’s own <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-quenneville-96b18b58/" rel="nofollow">Joël Quenneville</a>.</p> <p>If you would like to support the show, head over to our <a href="https://github.com/sponsors/thoughtbot" rel="nofollow">GitHub page</a>, or check out <a href="https://bikeshed.thoughtbot.com" rel="nofollow">our website</a>.</p> <p>Got a question or comment about the show? Why not write to our hosts: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" rel="nofollow">[email protected]</a></p> <p>This has been a <a href="https://thoughtbot.com/" rel="nofollow">thoughtbot</a> podcast. <br> Stay up to date by following us on social media - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@thoughtbot/streams" rel="nofollow">YouTube</a> - <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/150727/" rel="nofollow">LinkedIn</a> - <a href="https://thoughtbot.social/@thoughtbot" rel="nofollow">Mastodon</a> - <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/thoughtbot.com" rel="nofollow">Bluesky</a></p> <p>© 2025 thoughtbot, inc.</p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://github.com/sponsors/thoughtbot">Support The Bike Shed</a></p>
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