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The Bike Shed

The Bike Shed

Hosts Chris Toomey and Steph Viccari discuss their development experiences and challenges with Ruby, Rails, and JavaScript weekly on the Bike Shed podcast series.

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Code[ish] • March 4th, 2026

Heroku in the Wild: Saving Lives with Nonprofit Watch Duty

Hosted by Julián Duque, Dave Merrick

During the Los Angeles wildfires in 2025, more than 10 million people relied on Watch Duty for potentially life-saving information. On this episode of Code[ish], its Cofounder and CTO Dave Merrick talks Julián Duque through how the application works and the technologies like Heroku that make it possible.

Hosted By:

Julián Duque

Principal Developer Advocate, Heroku
@julian_duque

with Guest:

Dave Merrick

Cofounder and CTO, Watch Duty

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The Bike Shed • July 26th, 2017

Questions are for the Weak

In this episode, Caleb Thompson joins The Bike Shed to discuss lessons learned from past projects, and speaking at conferences.

The Bike Shed • July 21st, 2015

You Look Good in a Lab Coat

In this episode, Richard Schneeman joins The Bike Shed to discuss ruby memory use, horizontal scaling, and tackling open source issues.

The Bike Shed • June 8th, 2016

Make Ruby Scripting Great Again

In this episode, Terence Lee of Heroku, Bundler, and mruby-cli fame talks about Apache Kafka and the future of mruby scripting.