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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 Val...

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

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

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 C...

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, FreshBooks

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 !

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 !

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 Co...

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 H...

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 !

Amanda is joined by Morgane Santos to discuss the experiences, technology, and development of Virtual Reality. VR For Burn Relief Vive Maya for Beginners GoogleVR Dev Resources GitHub Game Off Get Cardboard Gray Area Thank you to our sponsor this week, FreshBooks !

We discuss the pain of custom inputs in HTML, ActiveRecord bugs, and Rust's Fire Flower. Sean’s Haircut Select2 Query with 'exists' subquery fails to bind parameters Rocket Diesel JSON data type Rust is More Than Safety Safety is Rust’s Fire Flower Fire Flowers and Marios: Marketing Rust Thank you to our sponsor this week, FreshBooks !

The impact of codes of conduct on community behavior, shipping a mobile app written in Elm, and yet more to say on SemVer. Diesel 0.9 Change Default Primary Keys to BIGINT The Rust Code of Conduct Ruby Code of Conduct issue Rails Code of Conduct thoughtbot Code of Conduct Disabling submit on invalid forms without JavaScript Purple Train Elm Native React Native Our earlier episode on Purple Train a...

We discuss the sneaky performance differences between present? , any? , blank? and empty? with ActiveRecord, when N+1 is a "feature", and the future of Diesel. An awesome gif Justin Trudeau’s Shopify selfie The Toonie Slow Counting in Postgres N+1 is a Feature Managing dependencies with Rails’ Russian doll caching Postgres Upsert Support The Bike Shed and other thoughtbot podcasts

Derek briefly complains of the staleness of the asset pipeline in Rails 5, before Sean catches Derek up on Rails 5.1's support for Webpack, Yarn, and ES6. We also discuss the pain of deprecations in the upgrade to Rails 5. Can I Use: HTML 5 validations checkValidity() ESLint Rails 5.1 can use Webpack and Yarn A Tour of Rails’ jQuery UJS How Does Origin Pull Work? PaperTrail Rails 5.1 pull request...

We discuss adventures with shared mutable state in Elixir before turning to our thoughts on mocking HTTP interaction and how our approaches may differ depending on the language we’re using. How to Solve a Rubik’s Cube GenServer Agent Mocks and Explicit Contracts by José Valim VCR and exvcr actual radio buttons

Ashley Williams joins the show to discuss NPM, Yarn, and the general package manager ecosystem. Ashley Williams Yarn yarn install--flat Peer Dependency --override for Elixir dependencies npm shrinkwrap Clarifying the Roles of the .gemspec and Gemfile Zero One Infinity READMEs mansplain CocoaPods' impact on GitHub npmCamp 2016 Panel - Package Managers: Before and After npm Node Together A Very Brie...

Amanda and Sean discuss talk prep and slide envy before diving in to Kotlin 1.0.5, UTF-8 identifiers in programming, and responsive layouts in Android. Expandable RecyclerViews and You - Amanda's DroidCon talk. Deckset How to Talk to Developers Is UTF-8 a Racist Kludge or Stroke of Genius? Senior Android Developer at thoughtbot in New York City Kotlin 1.0.5 Build a Responsive UI with ConstraintLay...

We talk about a widespread DNS outage and what steps you might take to avoid or limit your application's exposure to these things in the future. Deprecate the behavior of AR::Dirty inside of after_(create|update|save) callbacks Distributed Denial of Service attack on DNS Provider Dyn What is an ALIAS Record? ANAME records Why can't a CNAME record be used at the apex (aka root) of a domain? Avoid u...

Derek chats with Ian Anderson about developing a mobile app for iOS and Android with React Native. Ian on Twitter Purple (T)Rain GenServer Agent React Native Flow Elm Native UI React Native Web

We briefly ponder the very nature of our existence before discussing edge cases and interesting bugs encountered in ActiveRecord. Podcast Patreon Survey We May Be Living Inside a Black Hole Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? The R-7 Rocket Family Computing Glitch May Have Doomed Mars lander ActiveRecord’s from method ActiveRecord’s where.not method ActiveRecord’s WhereClause class Let’s fix d...

What do we look for when reviewing job applications, interviewing candidates, and pairing with prospective co-workers? thoughtbot Podcast Listener Survey Yarn: A new package manager for JavaScript About NPM Jobs at thoughtbot LAMP Stack recruitment in GitHub Issues The fruits of Derek’s FactoryGirl pairing session The Infield Fly Rule

Sean encounters a roadblock in updating Diesel to use Rust’s new soon-to-be-stabilized procedural macros. Derek and Sean discuss the most recent CVE filed for Bundler, which is a lot like the previous CVE filed for Bundler. Diesel 0.8.0 Derive Rust Macros 1.1 CSS Support in GMail GMail REST API Bundler’s Multiple Source Security Vulnerability Bundler Response Listener Survey

We discuss the problems with getting a CVE and the new lightning fast search tool, ripgrep. Sandwiched between those topics, we dive into the colonization of Mars. Yes, that's right, Mars. Podcast Patreon Survey Clearance password reset fix iwantacve.org Over 6,000 vulnerabilities went unassigned by MITRE's CVE project in 2015 Handling Security Issues in Open Source Projects by Tute Costa Elon Mus...

Derek and Sean talk through how to handle a security vulnerability that was reported for Clearance, a user authentication library. Cardboard Jankowski Prevent password reset token leak via HTTP referer The Meta Referrer Tag CVE Bundler Audit Ruby Advisory Database Ruby security announcement mailing list Destroy All Software