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Moves in Misc
by StacknessMiscbackdated
The whole team at one screen, one driver at a time, rotating on a timer. It grew out of pair programming and stayed a minority practice with a devoted following.
by StacknessMiscbackdated
GitHub turned code review into a conversation attached to a branch, and the pull request became the unit of work for most teams that followed.
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Two developers, one keyboard, one problem. Extreme programming made it a named practice, and it survives mostly as a deliberate tool for onboarding and hard problems rather than as an all-day default.
by Sergei GordeichukMiscbackdated
I make tasks locally within the repo with simple backlog/in_progress/done structure. That way LLMs know all the context and I don't have to connect Linear or so. The tasks itself are just simple MD files
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Write the failing test first, then the code that makes it pass, then clean up. Kent Beck's 2002 book put a name on the loop, and the argument about how literally to take it has never stopped.
Adoption history
Homebrew
Hacker News mentions mentions: 1 mentions (2007) to 70 mentions (2026)
Imported from Hacker News mentions
Stack Exchange data explorer questions asked: 3 questions (2008) to 1 questions (2026)
Imported from Stack Exchange data explorer
Stack Overflow developer survey usage share: 26.62 % of respondents (2022) to 25.93 % of respondents (2025)
Imported from Stack Overflow developer survey
Wikipedia pageviews pageviews: 3 views (2015) to 4,470 views (2026)
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pnpm
Hacker News mentions mentions: 5 mentions (2017) to 16 mentions (2026)
Imported from Hacker News mentions
npm downloads downloads: 1 downloads (2015) to 597,839,745 downloads (2026)
Imported from npm downloads
Stack Exchange data explorer questions asked: 1 questions (2018) to 3 questions (2026)
Imported from Stack Exchange data explorer
Stack Overflow developer survey usage share: 6.47 % of respondents (2023) to 13.56 % of respondents (2025)
Imported from Stack Overflow developer survey
Wikipedia pageviews pageviews: 257 views (2024) to 1,236 views (2026)
Imported from Wikipedia pageviews
make
Hacker News mentions mentions: 3 mentions (2007) to 21 mentions (2026)
Imported from Hacker News mentions
Stack Overflow developer survey usage share: 20.75 % of respondents (2023) to 23.42 % of respondents (2025)
Imported from Stack Overflow developer survey