Deep Work - the concept of blocking out prolonged sections of uninterrupted time to do work - has been making the rounds in tech circles the past few months. On the other side of things, we have mob programming, which focuses on something that seems completely contradictory to the Deep Work movement -- working collaboratively throughout the day while on a video call, with only one person typing at any given time. Whereas Deep Work focuses on people achieving flow state by having lots of solo ...| www.jamessimone.net
My manager and I met up the other morning for a paired programming session. We had two possible things to work on and decided to embrace Kent Beck's 'start small, or not at all,' by focusing on a seemingly innocuous task -- adding the disabled attribute to a lightning-button in one of our Lightning Web Components (LWC). Even with strict adherence to TDD, this is a task that should take only a few minutes; it's not a complicated component, and the change is extremely straightforward. Would it ...| www.jamessimone.net