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The Bike Shed Ep 506: The Muppet Software Team

This week’s episode is a radical one, let’s Muppet-cast a software development team!
Sally Hall and Aji Slater
July 14, 2026
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The Bike Shed Ep 505: What is a “principal” or “staff” engineer?

Sally and Joël join forces to discuss the different ways to interpret the role of a ‘principle’ or ‘staff’ engineer, and the handwaving around what those titles mean in terms of the gradation.
Joël Quenneville and Sally Hall
July 7, 2026
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The Bike Shed Ep 503: Seeing the Graph for the Trees

Aji and Joël discuss graph and tree structures, their connection to the emergent properties, attributes and qualities found from a largely connected group of data.
Joël Quenneville and Aji Slater
June 23, 2026
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Giant Robots Podcast Ep 614: AI Code Audits

Our hosts Chad and Sami team up this week to discuss AI code bases and whether they can be built to be developer friendly and with best practices in mind.
Chad Pytel and Sami Birnbaum
June 18, 2026
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The Bike Shed Ep 502: Apps That Make Our Work Go

Aji and Sally are back together again, this time to discuss the different apps they use to make their workflows and To Do lists easier and quicker to achieve.
Joël Quenneville and Sally Hall
June 16, 2026
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The Bike Shed Ep 501: What makes for good technical writing?

Sally and Joël get technical as they lay out their thoughts on blog posts.
Joël Quenneville and Sally Hall
June 2, 2026
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Giant Robots Podcast Ep 612: Do fish drink?

The Giant Robots trio are back to discuss the development of thoughtbot’s ReadySetGo app, and whether AI might be causing developers to go backwards.
Chad Pytel, Will Larry & Sami Birnbaum
May 28, 2026
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The Bike Shed Ep 500: Celebrating with past hosts

The Bike Shed celebrates its 500th episode with hosts new and old as they reflect on the show’s history and ask, what’s new in your world?
Stephanie Viccari, Joël Quenneville, Chris Toomey, Stephanie Minn, Sally Hall & Aji Slater
May 26, 2026
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Reflections on my conversation with Lord Chris Holmes MBE

Two months ago I sat down with Lord Chris Holmes MBE to talk about his AI regulation private members bill.
Sami Birnbaum
May 13, 2026
- AI
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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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