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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.

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  • Yesterday · 44 min

    507: Stacked Vertical Slices

    The Bike Shed is BACK! Aji and Joel kick off this week’s episode with a fantastic combination of component bugs and how much headspace they take up, historic heraldry vs ChatGPT’S anchoring bias, before diving into the latest big development of the Dev world, Github’s release of stacked PR’s. — Read more about Joël’s adventure in Europe with ChatGPT, and how to structuring conditionals when working with multi-step forms. Your hosts for this episode have been thoughtbot’s own Joël Quenneville and Aji Slater. Don't forget you can now also watch the show over on our YouTube channel! If you would like to support the show, head over to our GitHub page, or check out our website. Got a question or comment about the show? Write to our hosts: hosts@bikeshed.fm This has been a thoughtbot podcast. Stay up to date by following us on social media - LinkedIn - Mastodon - BlueSky © 2026 thoughtbot, inc. Support The Bike Shed

  • June 30 · 32 min

    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

  • June 23 · 41 min

    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.

  • June 16 · 40 min

    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.

  • May 26 · 58 min

    500: Celebrating with past hosts

    The Bike Shed celebrates its 500th episode with hosts new and old as they reflect on the show’s history and ask, what’s new in your world?

  • April 28 · 48 min

    499: BikeTube ShedTacular!

    Take a trip through Joël and Aji’s YouTube recommended list as they go over the media that has inspired their work the most over the course of their careers.

  • March 17 · 37 min

    498: Season 2 Recap

    Our hosts come together to wrap up season 2 and share some of their highlights along the way.

  • March 10 · 41 min

    497: Diagrams we love

    Aji and Joël get into a flow as they discuss the different diagrams that help guide their thought processes when working.

  • March 3 · 43 min

    496: Test suite performance

    Joël and Sally cover all the bases as they look at improving their test suite performances times.

  • February 17 · 40 min

    494: Primitive Obsession

    Joël and Sally examine the simpler components of programming and why using basic data structures may not always be the best approach to solving a problem.

  • February 10 · 41 min

    493: Suspenders with Steve Polito

    Joël talks with guest thoughtbotter Steve Polito about his recent work rewriting Suspenders, an old thoughtbot gem from the 2000s.

  • February 3 · 32 min

    492: Defining value within your team

    Sally and Aji assess some common metrics for success when working a project and how they may not always provide the clearest picture of how things are going.

  • January 27 · 40 min

    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.

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