The Bike Shed

The Bike Shed

Hosted by Joël Quenneville and Sally Hall and Aji Slater · thoughtbot

4.9from 144 ratings

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88Podcast AuthorityScore out of 100 · How it is scored
509
Episodes
88
Transcribed
144
Ratings
Daily
Cadence
2014
First episode
5M
YouTube views

About The Bike Shed

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.

Publisher
thoughtbot
Category
news · technology
Language
en
Explicit
No
First episode
31 Oct 2014
Latest episode
6 Oct 2026
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Latest episodes

88 of 509 episodes have a transcript.

  1. 6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

    509: Bringing Back Rails Generators with Rachel Wright-Munn

  2. 29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

    508: The Wonders of Static Analysis

  3. 15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

    507: Stacked Vertical Slices

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509: Bringing Back Rails Generators with Rachel Wright-Munn

Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Like you can just write a skill for that and you can have six PRs in a day and you can have them all cleanly separated out. I love doing like one RuboCop rule per PR. Yes. Oh, 100%. Right? And that's so easy now. I'm a real stickler for breaking up your work into iterative chunks where each small piece is individually shippable. And I think that that is a skill that is only... more valuable in the age of AI. Absolutely. I see this push for people to be like, no, I'm going to do a 30-file PR and everything. I'm like, okay, maybe you write that, but it's so easy for you to just be like, here are the separate PRs that I would like this to be broken up into, and then it's easier to review, and you can review it in more depth, and so can the person who's looking at your code. […]

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Who has been a guest on The Bike Shed

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  • Rachael Wright-Munn
  • Tess Griffin
  • Jimmy Thigpen

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YouTube views
5,243,894
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Apple Podcasts (US)
4.9 / 5
121 ratings
Spotify
5.0 / 5
23 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 88 / 100

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Quality
92
Social presence
100
YouTube
93
Engagement
67

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Who hosts The Bike Shed?

Joël Quenneville and Sally Hall and Aji Slater host the show. Published by thoughtbot.

How often do new episodes come out?

The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.

Does The Bike Shed take guests?

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