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The Bike Shed

On The Bike Shed, hosts Joël Quenneville and Stephanie Minn discuss development experiences and challenges at thoughtbot with Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and whatever else is drawing their attention, adm... Read more

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397: Dependency Graphs

397: Dependency Graphs

Stephanie is consciously trying to make meetings better for herself by limiting distractions. A few episodes ago, Joël t... Read more

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