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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] • August 27th, 2025

At the bleeding edge of computer vision is Plainsight Technologies, a company that’s modernizing infrastructure to handle future agentic AI workloads. Join us as we speak with CEO Kit Merker on Plainsight’s vision for the future, technological goals, and the leading case studies for computer vision.

Hosted By:
Julián Duque
Julián Duque
Principal Developer Advocate, Heroku
@julian_duque
with Guest:
Kit Merker
Kit Merker
CEO, Plainsight

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  • Deeply Technical
  • Agents
  • AI
  • technology

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The Bike Shed • July 26th, 2017
In this episode, Caleb Thompson joins The Bike Shed to discuss lessons learned from past projects, and speaking at conferences.
  • Rails
  • code style
  • speaking at conferences

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The Bike Shed • July 21st, 2015
In this episode, Richard Schneeman joins The Bike Shed to discuss ruby memory use, horizontal scaling, and tackling open source issues.
  • Ruby
  • Horizontal scaling
  • Memory use

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The Bike Shed • June 8th, 2016
In this episode, Terence Lee of Heroku, Bundler, and mruby-cli fame talks about Apache Kafka and the future of mruby scripting.
  • Ruby
  • mruby scripting
  • Rails

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