Medium's approach of allowing comments, but hiding them by default, seems like a good behaviour. You can still have a conversation in the context of the post, but they don't distract from the primary content.
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"Example Driven Development" using Glamorous and Pharo Smalltalk: https://medium.com/feenk/an-example-of-example-driven-development-4dea0d995920
Tests returning values and composing is a really interesting model. It establishes structure and shows which test failure is the most 'fundamental'.
Using Miri, the Rust interpreter, as a profiler to find bottlenecks: https://medium.com/source-and-buggy/data-driven-performance-optimization-with-rust-and-miri-70cb6dde0d35
The optimal size for a hobby project seems to be medium. Big projects are more work to change. Little projects have too few opportunities for tinkering/minor refactoring.