Ask HN: Would you like to join a mob programming group?

by mac_was on 11/23/2022, 9:12:00 PM with 23 comments
I've been thinking of setting up a fully remote mob programming group and looking for a few people to join.

We could meet on zoom or use some other tool and tackle together some interesting issues from GitHub or pick an interesting project and work on it. I'm a full stack dev and that is a sort of project I'm interested in working on.

I'm UK based and would love to meet during the week after 8 PM as I have kids and want to put them to bed.

If you're interested reply with an email or ping me on telegram - username is mac_tele

Want the first meeting to happen next Thursday at 8:30 PM UK time

I'll set up a mailing group where we will agree on the tools to use and pick the first task to work on.

I'm not interested in opinions about mob programming, I have very positive experience with remote sessions :)

  • by setr on 11/23/2022, 9:23:54 PM

    > I'm not interested in opinions about mob programming, I have very positive experience with remote sessions :)

    Well, I am. Wtf is mob programming and who’s got hands-on-keyboard?

    Pair programming makes sense because a discussion can be held — mob programming makes me imagine twitch plays Pokémon

  • by pablo24602 on 11/23/2022, 10:18:11 PM

    Very interesting concept, as I understand it from the material on https://www.remotemobprogramming.org/.

    From the name "mob programming" I thought it was something more akin to those mob dances- ie. a large group of technically savvy people organize around an issue and focus their willpower on it for a few hours (like, from 6-9 PM on a random Saturday, 50 programmers coordinate solve all the open issues on a random open source project, out of nowhere.)

  • by culopatin on 11/24/2022, 12:50:28 AM

    Would you accept having a fly in the wall? Doesn’t help you at all, but helps me tremendously!Can’t think of any better way to experience a bunch of “ooooh that’s how you do that” moments. As a solo programmer without formal education I often wonder how could I do X better

  • by deterministic on 11/24/2022, 12:25:32 AM

    Mob programming seems to be a super inefficient way to develop software. Basically programming by committee?

  • by mikewarot on 11/23/2022, 10:06:59 PM

    This is my first hearing of the concept. I'm not sure I'd have anything to add, as I've only programmed solo, with most of that being in the 1980s with DOS and early windows.

  • by moralestapia on 11/23/2022, 10:56:07 PM

    It sounds fun, I'd like to give it a try to see what it's like (mail in profile).

  • by ushercakes on 11/24/2022, 3:12:45 AM

    I would be interested in watching recorded YouTube sessions of this, to see how it works

  • by Metalic on 11/24/2022, 11:59:11 AM

    Sound like an interesting concept, count me in, see email in my profile.

  • by bsldld on 11/24/2022, 4:29:30 PM

    I am interested, but initially could I participate just as an observer?

  • by cowboynwf on 11/24/2022, 4:11:16 AM

    I'm totally down. I'm a verse developer.

  • by mr_o47 on 11/24/2022, 5:08:26 PM

    How can we get involved