Trending Misc
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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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