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Giant Robots Podcast Ep 608: Project Updates with Will, Chad and Sami

Our hosts provide a peek behind the scenes as they discuss their work on recent thoughtbot projects.
Chad Pytel, Will Larry & Sami Birnbaum
April 16, 2026
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The Opinionated thoughtbotter: Bootstrap is the Superior Front-End Toolkit

Steve Polito makes the case for Bootstrap as the best front-end toolkit for server-rendered applications. In this episode of The Opinionated thoughtbotter, he and Svenja Schäfer debate Bootstrap vs. Tailwind, MVP speed, customization, documen…
Svenja Schäfer
March 27, 2026
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Giant Robots Podcast Ep 606: AI layoffs are BS

Chad, Sami and Will bring a growing issue to the forefront as they discuss whether AI really is to blame for recent industry layoffs.
Chad Pytel, Will Larry & Sami Birnbaum
March 26, 2026
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The Bike Shed Ep 498: Season 2 Recap

Our hosts come together to wrap up season 2 and share some of their highlights along the way.
Joël Quenneville, Sally Hall & Aji Slater
March 17, 2026
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The Bike Shed Ep 497: Diagrams we love

Aji and Joël get into a flow as they discuss the different diagrams that help guide their thought processes when working.
Joël Quenneville and Aji Slater
March 10, 2026
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The Bike Shed Ep 496: Test suite performance

Joël and Sally cover all the bases as they look at improving their test suite performances times.
Joël Quenneville and Sally Hall
March 3, 2026
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The Opinionated thoughtbotter: Linting is Non-Negotiable

Linting isn’t about tabs vs. spaces. It’s about team consistency. thoughtbot senior developers Svenja Schäfer and Rémy Hannenquin talk code style, automation, PR review sanity, and why “just format the whole codebase” might be the least painf…
Svenja Schäfer
February 27, 2026
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The Bike Shed Ep 495: A shortcut to years of experience

Sally and Aji flick through thoughtbot’s guide to best practices in a bid to brush up on their coding habits.
Sally Hall and Aji Slater
February 24, 2026
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Giant Robots Podcast Ep 603: The product we are going to build

Sami makes his triumphant return to the Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots Podcast as he and his fellow hosts discuss a brand new tool currently in pre-production at thoughtbot.
Chad Pytel, Will Larry & Sami Birnbaum
February 19, 2026
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The Bike Shed Ep 494: Primitive Obsession

Joël and Sally examine the simpler components of programming and why using basic data structures may not always be the best approach to solving a problem.
Joël Quenneville and Sally Hall
February 17, 2026
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