I have two excellent passion projects right now. The first is working with my friend on remote pair programming in service of levelling her up faster than woul

I have two excellent passion projects right now. The first is working with my friend on remote pair programming in service of levelling her up faster than would otherwise be possible for the average graduate of a coding bootcamp program. She got a job as a junior dev almost immediately out of the program, and I spend sometimes many hours a day screen sharing and talking through problems. It demands patience and good communication, but the results have been one of the most incredible investments I've ever made. It's also one of the most intimate connections I've ever experienced. We both have a ton of gratitude, and I've learned an amazing amount in the process. I've also been working on my own Rails project, which I've been converting from ad hoc jQuery to Stimulus and Turbolinks. One of the things I've learned from working with my friend is that when it comes to the whole React/JS-for-everything ecosystem, the inmates are running the asylum. In this case, inmates are a critical mass of relatively new devs in an echo chamber that thinks React is the default choice for every project and have little practical experience to base this on. Sadly, Stimulus/Turbolinks is not the hipster choice and part of the problem is a lack of visible examples of how amazing these libraries actually are. I'm excited to publish a series of posts about how warm the water is on our side of the debate.