

Show HN: My humble little side project to support OSS and developer happiness - sleight42
http://rubypair.com

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damncabbage
Just a heads-up: signing in with GitHub automatically puts you in _both_ the
Remote and In-Person lists if you just cancel out of the form that pops up
after you authenticate.

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sleight42
Yup. That's intentional for now. We assume that you signed up for a reason.
You just didn't tell us exactly why. So we make a broad assumption. ;)

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tomstuart
What does this site do? Is it a directory of developers who are willing to
pair, or something more/else? Can I find out without signing up?

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sleight42
Ok, we kind of glossed over that. I'll update the about page.

In a nutshell: we're about helping kindred developer spirits find one another
for local/remote pairing. Later on, I'm hoping to add more features to
actively mediate the experience.

I'd love to integrate with pair.io to help other people remote pair. But, for
now, I use a simple arrangement of SSH+tmux+vim+skype to remote pair with
folks when I do.

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ahmetalpbalkan
Why is this Ruby-specific? I see other language tags in other people's
interests.

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sleight42
Totally. Nola already had the domain so we went with that. I still see the app
as an experiment. Once we get things more nailed down, I'm thinking about
opening it up beyond Ruby.

Besides, frankly, we "Rubyists" tend to be polyglots. That is to say: there's
nothing stopping Java developers from signing up. :D

