The Yak Shave Podcast
1) 14: TIL database connections aren't cheap
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 two week...Show More
2) 13: "As much time as I can without reading C" with James Coglan
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 to rebu...Show More
3) 12: A new cat named Merb!
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.
4) The Parse.y Hole
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 recent...Show More
5) 10: Deleting all of a user's comments is probably a bug
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 Go, R...Show More
6) 9: Tools That are Well Built Will do it for us!
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 incidents on...Show More
7) 8: Vulnerability
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 October 2018 when GitHub went down? Sean is...Show More
8) It's not a Pyramid, it's a Diamond
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.
9) 6: The Podcast After the Last Podcast
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 sandbo...Show More
10) 5: A Series of Anecdotes
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 the HTTP...Show More