256: Rational Pessimism

The Bike Shed

• Episode: 256: Rational Pessimism
• Website: The Bike Shed
• Feed URL: https://www.bikeshed.fm/rss
• Duration: 00:46:31
• Published: 2020-08-11 06:15

On this week's episode, Chris shares his recent adventures of working with a team that prioritizes async-first communication and Steph revisits a previous discussion around the use of web sockets and optimistic user interfaces. They also dive into the classically hard question "should we rewrite the app?" and share survival tips for learning to type on a split keyboard. This episode is brought to you by: ScoutAPM (https://scoutapm.com/bikeshed) - Give Scout a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy Indeed (https://Indeed.com/bikeshed) - Click through and get started with a free seventy five dollar credit for your first job post Telegram (https://telegram.org/) Phoenix Channels JavaScript client (https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/js/) Express.js (https://expressjs.com/) MongoDB (https://www.mongodb.com/) ErgoDox Keyboard (https://ergodox-ez.com/) A Modern Space Cadet (https://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/) Atreus Keyboard (https://atreus.technomancy.us/) Moonlander Keyboard (https://ergodox-ez.com/)