Podcasts by The Yak Shave

1: A Brave New World from 2023-12-12T19:32:22.946254

• The despacito music video.
• A video of Sean trying to get Ruby sayin...
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4: Folks are in a Stink from 2023-12-12T19:32:22.928316

In this episode of The Yak Shave, Sean gets Sam's opinion on dealing with documentation. They share tips, tricks, and workarounds regarding queryable structures, databases, APIs, languages, docu...

It's not a Pyramid, it's a Diamond from 2023-12-12T19:32:22.916908

Sean and Sam talk all about testing. Sam created an ideal testing pyramid based on personal experience and from talking with test thought leaders, such as Justin Searls. The testing pyramid has ...

8: Vulnerability from 2023-12-12T19:32:22.911530

Yak Shave - Episode 8

This episode was recorded on October 21st 2018. We thought it best to get this to you, even though it's a little stale :)

Remember that dark, scary time in Oc...

14: TIL database connections aren't cheap from 2023-12-12T19:32:22.876833

A background job should be a function. So, putting more things in it is always a good idea! Sean announced that he shipped background jobs for crates.io. It's been in production for more than tw...

13:"As much time as I can without reading C"with James Coglan from 2019-03-25T03:00

Do you use Git practically every day, but have no idea how to implement it? Need a more accessible and easier way than reading original source code to understand how it works? Want to know how t...

12: A new cat named Merb! from 2019-03-18T03:00

Sean and Sam talk about debugging a memory leak with Crates.io when upgrading to Rust 1.32 that could only be reproduced in production. The problem was related to the jemalloc memory allocator b...

The Parse.y Hole from 2019-02-26T04:00

Derek Prior, engineering manager at GitHub, joins Sam to talk about what they’ve been working on these days. Derek’s doing GitHub projects that can’t talk about. But, he did mention that GitHub ...

10: Deleting all of a user's comments is probably a bug from 2019-02-18T05:00

Ruby's language development is off the charts. Also: we talk about programming. Sam and Sean discuss Ruby, auto-formatting, and whether Hash Rockets are good. They bring other languages, such as...

9: Tools That are Well Built Will do it for us! from 2019-02-11T04:00

We’re still time travelling, Sam has since left DigitalOcean, but in this episode, he talks about his experiences there.

Sean talks about his experiences managing the crates.io team, and ...

6: The Podcast After the Last Podcast from 2018-10-23T21:25

This week Sean is joined by former cohost Derek Prior. After a brief reflection on the end of The Bike Shed, we discuss WebAssembly and what it means for the future of the web as well as native ...

5: A Series of Anecdotes from 2018-10-11T23:38

In this episode, Sean and Sam discuss the challenges of feedback cycles in organizations, how we could benefit from more feedback in open source, and some idiosyncrasies regarding libcurl and th...

3: Almost 0% Chance it's a Bug from 2018-09-28T11:49

In this episode of The Yak Shave, Sean shares the most nightmarish debugging experience he has had in a long time. rails_fast_attributes was down to one failure, which ...

2: This is Fine from 2018-09-20T21:00

In this episode of The Yak Shave, Sean and Sam discuss their experiences with incident management, the difficulties of getting an on-call rotation right.

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