mob VS dotfiles

We do remote mob programming and use the mob tool for faster handovers. It handles creating, pushing and merging a WIP branch. It reduces the cost of switching. Once we had a rotation time of 7min because the team was big and it worked great

Every time I introduce new people to mob programming they love it and usually suggest we do it more often in retros. I always make mob sessions optional. How you structure/run the mob session makes a big difference. Be humble. Don't be a dick. Leave ego at the door. And use this tool: https://github.com/remotemobprogramming/mob. It allows for lightning quick hand offs of in progress code. Works excellent for pairing too. You just type "mob start 10" (for 10 minutes) and when it tells you "mob next" you just type "mob next" and the next person types "mob start 10" and they instantly have all of your changes. Then when you're done, just "mob done" and you can craft a nice commit message.

We found it better to use a mob CLI.

Did you have a chance to try out https://github.com/remotemobprogramming/mob ?

We eventually just moved back to each person using their editor of choice over a discord screen share, and focused on fast git cycles instead, first using and contributing to https://github.com/remotemobprogramming/mob and then later writing a simple many-to-many merge and review script (https://gist.github.com/stevegt/2c04ee0e9500ff1727eff60e538934a1) to support both mob and async work.

On my laptop I don't run any servers, so a simple firewall that blocks incoming connections and allows stateful outgoing ones (seems to) work fine for me! I use iptables which is the standard firewall for linux I think? The script (executed by systemd) is here: https://github.com/snhmibby/dotfiles/blob/main/iptables.sh

You can look at it here: https://github.com/snhmibby/dotfiles/tree/main/vim

Here's a list of plugins I use, my full config can be browsed here