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I've been collecting a personal note of various "____ Driven Development" patterns, I figured I'd share them here to help others adopt them!

Hint - I don't actually strongly recommend some of these patterns 🤣

  • Domain (name) Driven Development
    • Buying a domain name to motivate you to actually build something
    • Rarely ever works
  • Meme Driven Development
    • "Building it for the meme"
  • Readme Driven Development
  • Outlining how the thing should work in the readme, and then implementing it from there
  • May actually work really well
  • CI Driven Development
    • Slinging code changes to remote to see if the CI passes or fails
    • It usually fails at least couple of times, don't worry about trying to find the root issue locally, just keep pushing changes!
  • Burnout Driven Development
    • When you're so burntout that you just do what everyone tells you to do during code review
    • "Nitpicky suggestion change to the code - sure no problem I'll apply that change" - Me

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    Just published a quick note on various "___ Driven Development" patterns

    matthamlin.me/2025/june/bl...
    <Blank> Driven Development

    <Blank> Driven Development

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