177: Tricking Computers Into Doing Things - a podcast by thoughtbot

On this episode of the Bike Shed, Chris is joined by Christina Entcheva, developer from thoughtbot's New York studio who has been a product manager and designer previously in her career, but has since settled in to her role as a developer.

Chris & Christina share a conversation ranging from their shared love of "boring Rails apps", Christina's recent work with headless CMSs like Contentful & Prismic, and a discussion around Rails performance. Throughout the conversation they touch on theme's of keeping a focus on user needs throughout the work of developing applications.

• Contentful


• Prismic


• Essential Scala book


• Nate Berkopec


• The Complete Guide to Rails Performance


• Mark/Compact GC in MRI - Aaron Patterson


• Benchmark module in Ruby


• Postgres Table Partitioning


• Getting Real book by Basecamp


• It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work


• Upcase is now Free!


• Testing Interaction with 3rd-party APIs on Upcase


• Composition Over Inheritance on Upcase

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