#getting_better

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December 29, 2019

I was back home and the pain was going away slowly. A sad way to spent the vacation.

29 Décembre 2019

J’étais de retour à la maison et la douleur s’en allait doucement. C’est une manière triste de passer des vacances.

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A service for getting feedback on your programming workflow

One of the best things about pairing is when your partner says “Why are you doing that? Haven't you heard of X?” where X is:

a Sublime Text plugin

a zsh snippet

some fancy git technique

a more-appropriate method (like Array#each_with_object)

And it's not just micro-optimisations around tooling — I've gotten feedback on how and when I write tests, what to include in commits, when to refactor, and even how I take breaks.

But why are we limiting that advice to the few people who are a) nearby and b) interested enough in your growth to help you for free?

I want to capture an hour-long video of my screen while I code and send it off to someone to tell me how I could be doing things better. I'm going to try it out this week. I'll tell you how it goes (and maybe even post my video…).

(Got the idea after Kottke linked linked to A.J. Jacobs's article about getting instant advice on everything you do via Google Glass.)