Steph has a baby update and thoughts on movies, plus a question for Chris related to migrating Test Unit tests to RSpec.
Chris watched a video from Google I/O where Chrome devs talked about a new feature called Page Transitions. He's also been working with a tool called Customer.io, an omnichannel communication whiz-bang adventure!
Page transitions Overview (https://youtu.be/JCJUPJ_zDQ4)
Using yield_self for composable ActiveRecord relations (https://thoughtbot.com/blog/using-yieldself-for-composable-activerecord-relations)
A Case for Query Objects in Rails (https://thoughtbot.com/blog/a-case-for-query-objects-in-rails)
Customer.io (https://customer.io/)
Turning the database inside-out with Apache Samza | Confluent (https://www.confluent.io/blog/turning-the-database-inside-out-with-apache-samza/)
Datomic (https://www.datomic.com/)
About CRDTs • Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (https://crdt.tech/)
Apache Kafka (https://kafka.apache.org/)
Resilient Management | A book for new managers in tech (https://resilient-management.com/)
Mixpanel: Product Analytics for Mobile, Web, & More (https://mixpanel.com/)
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Transcript:
CHRIS: Golden roads are golden. Okay, everybody's got golden roads. You have golden roads, yes? That is what we're --
STEPH: Oh, I have golden roads, yes.
[laughter]
CHRIS: You might should inform that you've got golden roads, yeah.
STEPH: Yeah, I don't know if I say might should as much but might could. I have been called out for that one a lot; I might could do that.
CHRIS: [laughs]
STEPH: That one just feels so natural to me than normal. Anytime someone calls it out, I'm like, yeah, what about it?
[laughter]
CHRIS: Do you want to fight?
STEPH: Yeah, are we going to fight?
CHRIS: I might could fight you.
STEPH: I might could. I might should.
[laughter]
CHRIS: Hello and welcome to another episode of The Bike Shed, a weekly podcast from your friends at thoughtbot about developing great software. I'm Chris Toomey.
STEPH: And I'm Steph Viccari.
CHRIS: And together, we're here to share a bit of what we've learned along the way. So, Steph, what's new in your world?
STEPH: Hey, Chris. I have a couple of fun updates. I have a baby Viccari update, so little baby weighs about two pounds now, two pounds. I'm 25 weeks along. So not that I actually know the exact weight, I'm using all those apps that estimate based on how far along you are, so around two pounds, which is novel. Oh, and then the other thing I'm excited to tell you about...I'm not sure how I should feel that I just got more excited about this other thing. I'm very excited about baby Viccari.
But the other thing is there's a new Jurassic Park movie coming out, and I'm very excited. I think it's June 10th is when it comes out. And given how much we have sung that theme song to each other and make references to what a clever girl, I needed to share that with you. Maybe you already know, maybe you're already in the loop, but if you don't, it's coming.
CHRIS: Yeah, the internet likes to yell things like that. Have you watched all of the most recent ones? There are like two, and I think this will be the third in the revisiting or whatever, the Jurassic World version or something like that. But have you watched the others?
STEPH: I haven't seen all of them. So I've, of course, seen the first one. I saw the one that Chris Pratt was in, and now he's in the latest one. But I think I've missed...maybe there's like two in the middle there. I have not watched those.
CHRIS: There are three in the original trilogy, and then there are three now in the new trilogy, which now it's ending, and they got everybody.
STEPH: Oh, I'm behind.
CHRIS: They got people from the first one, and they got the people from the second trilogy. They just got everybody, and that's exciting. You know, it's that thing where they tap into nostalgia, and they take advantage of us via it. But I'm fine. I'm here for it.
STEPH: I'm her