At any given time in the past few years, I’ve had a few projects active at the same time, from little experiments to forks of open source projects to code for various jobs. Over time, I’ve developed a little bash ditty to help me manage switching between projects, and I wanted to share that today.

Pair programming is one of the more interesting trends in the profession of software creation. It’s particularly interesting to me because it is the primary issue on which I differ from the thought leaders. In this essay, I examine some of my worries about the general applicability of this practice.