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Advice for pair programming that you'll hate

So you’re stuck watching your pair do things. You don’t understand what’s going on, and you can’t seem to get enough of a handle on the problem to be able to contribute. How do you get out of this situation?

Pairing is for peacocks

Pairing gives engineers a way to show off to each other without shipping really complicated stuff.

Tips for pair programming from Air Force Colonel John Boyd & also from Ms. Frizzle

This is great if you're dealing with someone who's trying to kill you. You can use it to overcome some major disadvantages in raw power with enough speed. It's a lot less great if the mental model that you’re invalidating is your pair’s mental model of the codebase you’re both working on.

You think you're doing continuous integration, but you're not

You have a CI server, and you think that gives you continuous integration.

Why aren't we all using Heroku?

10 possible explanations for the biggest mystery in software development

When was the last time you changed your standup?

A system that's not working is probably a system that's not changing. If a system isn't working, practice changing it.