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
JUL 7, 2026
505: What is a “principal” or “staff” engineer?
Sally and Joël join forces to discuss the different ways to interpret the role of a ‘principle’ or ‘staff’ engineer, and the handwaving around what those titles mean in terms of the gradation.
34 MIN
JUN 30, 2026
504: AI Ethics (with guests!)
Aji is joined by thoughtbot’s own Tess Griffin and Jimmy Thigpen, to talk about what kind of conversations are going on at thoughtbot around AI
32 MIN
JUN 23, 2026
503: Seeing the Graph for the Trees
Aji and Joël discuss graph and tree structures, their connection to the emergent properties, attributes and qualities found from a largely connected group of data.
41 MIN
JUN 16, 2026
502: Apps That Make Our Work Go
Aji and Sally are back together again, this time to discuss the different apps they use to make their workflows and To Do lists easier and quicker to achieve.
40 MIN
JUN 2, 2026
501: What makes for good technical writing?
Sally and Joël get technical as they lay out their thoughts on blog posts.
34 MIN
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