YAGNI

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