June 22, 2024 — How often do you pair program?
For me the answer is not enough.
Much of my programming knowledge I got sitting behind coders at work in Redmond, San Francisco, Mountain View, et cetera.
I learned from programmers older than me, younger than me, and the same age.
All groups used brilliant tools, commands, and DSLs I had never seen before.
PLDB is a remote, decentralized open source project, so it is very rare that any of us contributors get to "pair program" with each other.
Luckily, screencasts with video overlays turn out to be a good substitute for in person pair programming.
With that introduction, I present the video below.