Porcini Hunting - Finding Your Programming Guide is a three-page micro-zine that draws a parallel between hunting for mushrooms and finding technical mentors and teachers.
While this started as a test-draft for printing full-color zines, we were overcome by our love for mushrooms and mentorship and decided to make it publicly available.
Download a copy free or pay a suggested purchase price of $1. You can also learn how porcini hunting is like programming for free online.
Earlier this year, I watched as people involved in the software world called on major organizations to change. These organizations included the MIT Media Lab, MIT itself, and the Free Software Foundation. While details and content of these dem...
It took me a long time to understand the joys of pair programming. When I took my first computer programming class in the 1990s, computers were a limited resource. The newer, better computers were used by two people together. I took a significa...
Earlier this month, Betsy and I tried to live stream a pairing session and _failed miserably_. But! We had fun, so we spent about 30m performing a [retrospective](http://www.funretrospectives.com/the-retrospective-prime-directive/) on our [_Debugg...
