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If you are running a new open source project that's ready to start its social media presence, I urge you to do it on Mastodon, the defaul...

What I do love from #pairing is that the lag between you evolve your mental model about the problem at hand, and you are able to communicate that to another team member is the shortest one. I can learn new stuff from the domain within minutes with a fast feedback loop as you gain when doing #TDD for example. But the important aspect is about how much time lapses between that little learning you had and the whole team is up to date to the enhanced model. That's why pairing + TDD is a super powerful combination of methodologies. Nowadays, if you combine with remote collaboration tools as #Miro, you are able to capture those learnings in a shared board that other colleagues can check in a regular basis.

Good luck to the OpenTF team, I hope Hashicorp does the right thing, but I believe they wont. I look forward to a new foundation managing a open source fork of Terraform. I appreciate the words of their manifesto! https://opentf.org/

Making a tech salary and still living paycheck to paycheck has been my life for the majority of my time in tech, and I want the narrative that it's not possible (or less likely) to be eliminated. Got paid yesterday and because of the fucking debt and expenses I have, I have $250 to my name. This is why I rail so hard for bringing up the floor on equality and stances.

Go 1.21 expands Go's commitment to backward compatibility, so that every new Go toolchain is the best possible implementation of older toolchain semantics as well.