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The first pairing session video is now available!
MOOM members: If you check My Courses at avdi.codes, you should now see a new course called The Capacitor Sessions. This is the promised pair-programming video series showing @betsy and I working together on a real Rails app.
I’m publishing the series as a separate course to make it easy to keep track of where you left off. I’ll be putting out roughly half-hour videos as we finish editing them.
The direct URL for the series is: https://avdi.codes/courses/capacitor-sessions/ If you are not able to access it, please let us know.
There is currently one video in the sequence, which is mostly introductory and getting-to-know-you episode.
Let @betsy and I know what you think!
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A note about these pair-programming videos: because the whole point of these sessions is to avoid the fakeness that comes along with pre-planned technique demonstrations, I deliberately avoided setting an agenda for them beforehand other than picking the app we would work on. By design, I had very little idea going into them what direction they would go. My approach to these sessions is: whatever happens is the right thing to happen, and whatever we end up talking about is the right thing to talk about.
Which is all to say: if you’re expecting clean-cut demonstrations of the techniques you’re seeing in the course lessons, you may be disappointed. But if you want to see what happens when two experienced Ruby developers get together to hack some codeincluding all the tangents, digressions, whoopsies and brainfarts along the wayI think you’ll enjoy them!
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I’m not sure people who hold more of the system in their heads are actually doing that. I would guess they’re
a) requiring themselves to gather more context due to code that suffers from not designing away code smells, and
b) are probably closer to the original writing of the code so they can gather that context faster, giving the appearance that they’re holding more of the system in their head
I doubt that it’s different brain types and just more likely the original writer of the code being able to recall their own memory.
Optimizing code for clear sign posts just makes sense, because other people can’t access your memories to gather the context quicker.
It’s good for the original author, too, because they can relieve themselves of the same burden, even if it is not as heavy (though we all know that the future self gets closer to being a newbie to the codebase)
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Two concepts from the field of psychology worth looking into: working memory and chunking.
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Am I the only one unable to access the video? I click on the provided link: https://avdi.codes/lessons/introducing-the-application/ but the page simply reloads the current url.
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False alarm. I was not logged in
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