Matt and Aaron talk about programming books and try to answer the question "do we need them?"

Aaron Francis on Twitter // PlanetScale
Matt Swanson on Twitter // arrows.to

Aaron's shed
Aaron reading printed docs on the beach
SQL Window Functions
The Pragmatic Programmer
The Timeless Way of Building
Culture is Stuck
Use the Index, Luke!
MySQL for Developers course
Why do programmers use books as monitor stands?

Matt and Nate talk about Redis and try to answer the question "do we need it?"

Nate Berkopec on Twitter // Speedshop
Matt Swanson on Twitter // arrows.to

"Redis is not faster than your database"
"Your data fits in RAM"
March of progress
neo4j
sidekiq
ACID
kredis
Wafris
"Running Sidekiq...with a volatile eviction policy"
Solid Queue
Solid Cache
The open source gift exchange
puma/puma
The Silver Rule

Matt and Jason talk about Service Objects and try to answer the question "do we need them?"

Jason Swett on Twitter // Code with Jason
Matt Swanson on Twitter // arrows.to

Jason's Snail Mail newsletter
Brevity is the soul of wit

Matt and Josh talk about automated testing and try to answer the question "do we need them?"

Josh Pigford on Twitter // Detangle
Matt Swanson on Twitter // arrows.to

Wittgenstein's Ruler
Why doesn't Stripe have a /mrr endpoint?
GitHub Project Paper Cuts
Baremetrics
Maybe
Laser Tweets
Cedar & Sail
The best restaurant in the world
Kim Kardashian - Kimoji app
Cursor AI Editor
Stated vs Revealed preferences

Matt and Trevor talk about GraphQL and try to answer the question "do we need it?" (Bonus hot takes on VCR snapshot testing)

Trevor Turk on Twitter // Hello Weather
Matt Swanson on Twitter // arrows.to

GraphQL: The Documentary
GraphiQL
n+1 problems in GraphQL
BFF: Backend for Frontend
Graph Theory
Schema stitching

Bonus: VCR

Matt and Charity talk about Friday Deploys and try to answer the question "do we need them?"

Charity Majors on Twitter // honeycomb.io
Matt Swanson on Twitter // arrows.to

Friday deploy freezes are exactly like murdering puppies
Coaching tree
Frequency Reduces Difficulty (Martin Fowler)
Payoff space vs consistency space
Blame-aware postmortem
DORA metrics

Justin Searls on Twitter
Matt Swanson on Twitter

Arrows
Test Double

Justin's "What do you like about RSpec" thread (2016)
Dan North BDD
Nate Berkopec "Reading rspec documentation like..." tweet
Corey Haines: Fast Rails Tests
Kent Beck: "I get paid for code that works, not for tests..."
Nick Quaranto's minitest CLI wrapper
Mocktail gem
test_data gem

Dave Copeland on Twitter
Matt Swanson on Twitter

Arrows
Mood Health

Taylorism / Scientific management
Google DORA Report
"Agile" on TikTok
The Joel Test
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” George Carlin

Justin Duke on Twitter
Matt Swanson on Twitter

Arrows
Buttondown

Accidental AirBnB "test" notification
The Pragmatic Programmer
"SICP" book
"We dont use a staging server" HN thread
Checklist Manifesto
IQ Bell Curve / Midwit - Know Your Meme