The Bike Shed
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On The Bike Shed, hosts Joël Quenneville, Sally Hall, and Aji Slater discuss development experiences and challenges at thoughtbot with Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and whatever else is drawing their attention, admiration, or ire this week.
Recent Episodes
JAN 27, 2026
491: Influences that shaped our thinking
Joël and Aji reference their personal bibliographies as they compare the different influences that have shaped their programmer world view.
40 MIN
JAN 20, 2026
490: Large Language Misadventure
Aji and Sally sit down to dissect the complicated beast that is AI.
41 MIN
JAN 13, 2026
489: What makes a codebase welcoming
Joël and Sally tidy up the place as they discuss the different ways a new codebase and team can feel welcoming to them.
39 MIN
JAN 6, 2026
488: The Playful Portland Programming Paradigm
Aji and Joël talk all things hackerthons and why taking the time to have a little having fun with your work every now and then is important for developers.
30 MIN
DEC 30, 2025
487: ActiveModel custom attributes
Joël contributes some thoughts on working with custom attributes as he follows up on last week’s discussion about ActiveModels with Sally.
37 MIN
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