A few days ago I had the pleasure of paired programming for the first time with Ben Holmen (@benholmen.com on 🦋). Great chat, wonderful developer, and I can happily say that he turned me on to the idea of paired programming with strangers as a way to meet other devs and grow my professional network. Genius!

What is the Pair-amid Scheme 🔺

You can read more about Ben's take here, but the gist of it is that a dev offers their calendar open to book a few paired programming slots per week (in my case I limit mine to 2/week).

Ideally the person requesting the pairing has something to work on, but if the time devolves into general chatting about software development, that's also a success!

If you'd like to book a paired programming session we me, you can find my booking link at:

www.trillium.is/pair (or www.trillium.is/🍐 which is the same link but more hilarious to me)

Looking forward to pairing with you soon!