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What's appropriate for a web middleware stack to provide? Does Rack do too much? Plus, our thoughts on NeoVim and Vim 8. Futures-RS My Life With NeoVim Vim 8 Asynchronous functions patch discussion gitsh Xi Editor Stop saying "the ____ monad"

Derek and Sean talk through some complex SQL before they examine the calluses developed from years of writing software on OS X. Press 1 for Lobby Ransack EXTRACT Pivot Tables crosstab Derek’s crosstab Query Window Functions Set Returning Functions Uninstall All Installed Gems on OS X

Sean and Amanda discuss the state of Android Development in 2016. Java, Kotlin, Dependency Injection, and Functional Reactive Programming, oh my! Amanda Hill on Twitter Android Debug Bridge (ADB) Android Studio - The Official IDE for Android JetBrains Kotlin Tropos Weather Runes: Monadic Functions in Swift Receiving Location Updates in Android Dagger: A fast dependency injector for Android Introdu...

How can you get your open source pull request merged? Elevator number pad Sorry, video of Sean’s Abstractions Conference talk is not yet available Clearance PR discussion driven by contributors Module#prepend is the end of alias_method_chain - by Justin Weiss

Between thoughtbot's Summer Summit and Sean's vacation, we are sadly without a new episode this week. However, we would love you all to check out thoughtbot's newest podcast, interviewing inspirational designers, developers, and other makers in tech, The Laila & Brenda Show! Give their latest episode a listen here, and if you like it subscribe to their feed however you listen to podcasts! The...

Derek and Sean discuss hunting down intermittently failing tests, finding unused code in your application, and why you should never ever change your test framework. RSpec Bisect RSpec 3.3 Release Notes Git Bisect Unused The Halting Problem Diesel 0.7

We talk through design considerations for a user-visible custom query builder for a high volume ecommerce system. Ransack Using Arel to Compose SQL Queries PgBouncer establish_connection AWS in Plain English ApartmentEx Underscore + Lodash

We discuss Pokémon Go and what it's success might mean for software developers before Sean lays out his case for replacing the pg gem and libpq . Derek on Full Stack Radio The Laila and Brenda Show Google's Project Tango devices Pokemon Go gets full access Google auth token Why your email address isn't your identity The pg gem libpq SQL Server data types

Aaron Patterson joins us from RailsConf for puns, performance improvements in Ruby, and AirDropping cats. Gorbypuff Virus UTF8 vs UTF16 vs UTF32 What happened to the Rails 4 queue API? Koichi talks about AOT compilation Aaron hates encoding. This isn't a link, just a fact. Sean's terrifying test script, slightly out of date rails.vim, the tpope jam

Inspired by Nickolas Means’ fantastic RailsConf keynote, we discuss the corollaries between Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works projects and our software development projects. Sean’s DXRacer Chair Skunk Works by Nickolas Means Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Big Design Up Front Kelly’s 14 Rules and Processes Rules Made Up by You - Kelly’s rules as applied to modern software development Factory, Worksh...

Sandi Metz joins us live from RailsConf to talk about the rules, the trouble with naming things, making the right kinds of errors, and conference speaking. The Bike Shed - Episode 1: Sandi and Derek's Rules Sandi Metz' Rules For Developers Sandi on the Ruby Rogues Don't Create Verb Classes Swift Proposal for Default Final GoRuCo 2009: SOLID Object-Oriented Design by Sandi Metz How to Talk to Devel...

We discuss thoughtbot's increasing use of Elixir and Phoenix and what that means for our Rails work before diving into what's new in Elixir 1.3 and Ecto 2.0. Jonathon Coulton: IKEA Derek's thoughtbot ♥️ Elixir tweet. Fuck Bullshit HTC Vive Office Simulator Demo ExMachina and Bamboo from Paul Smith Elixir 1.3 CHANGELOG Ecto 2.0 CHANGELOG Phoenix Presence

Sean runs through a Rails bug that sits at the intersection of several magical and confusing Rails features. accepts_nested_attributes_for inverse_of autosave The proposed fix for 5.1.0 Datomic

Leading Rails contributor Rafael Franca joins us from RailsConf to talk about taking over Sprockets, the future of the asset pipeline in Rails, managing Rails dependencies, and the hard work of software maintenance. Rafael Franca Rails Contributors Sprockets Reintroducing gzip file generation in Sprockets LibSass is Sass in C (and fast) Spriting with Compass Rails Assets is not Dead turbograft TC3...

We talk with Terence Lee of Heroku, Bundler, and mruby-cli fame about Apache Kafka and the future of mruby scripting. Terence Lee Kafka I Can’t Believe It’s Not A Queue: Using Kafka with Rails - Terence’s RailsConf talk. mruby mruby-cli Traveling Ruby Keep Ruby Weird

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 Organiz...

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

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

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”

"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

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

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 Hijack...

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...

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...

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 C...