The Bike Shed

Joël has been fighting autoloading in a Rails app recently, and it's been really unpleasant. Stephanie has been experimenting with how she interacts with Slack. What are "the fundamentals"? People often argue for the value of Computer Science classes for the jobbing programmer because we need "the fundamentals." But what are they? And does CS really provide that for us? This episode is brought to you by Airbrake (https://airbrake.io/?utm_campaign=Q3_2022%3A%20Bike%20Shed%20Podcast%20Ad&utm_source=Bike%20Shed&utm_medium=website). Visit Frictionless error monitoring and performance insight for your app stack. RailsConf talk on autoloading (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57AsQrxjLEs) Joël's RubyConf Mini talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHMOsTK1jSE) Stephanie's RubyConf Mini talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-ukCrsrTNw) Fun, Friendly Computer Science by Mercedes Bernard (https://mercedesbernard.com/speaking/fun-friendly-cs) Achieving Fast Method Metaprogramming: Lessons from MemoWise by Jemma Issroff