A Year in Review – 2023
A personal look back at 2023, reflecting on a year of productive beginnings, difficult lows, and the highs that punctuated a turbulent twelve months.
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Measuring the Impact of Developer Experience
Research on how developer experience affects productivity, code quality, retention, and innovation, with evidence to help engineering leaders make the case for improvement.
Read articleTwo years in Review: 2021 and 2020
Reflections on launching an on-site code review workshop business, raising two young children, and adapting to the upheaval of the pandemic in 2020 and 2021.
Read articleSecurity Code Review Checklist to find Security Vulnerabilities
A checklist to help reviewers identify security vulnerabilities and privacy issues, bringing a systematic security focus to everyday code reviews.
Read articleBuild your own “intelligent” code review reminder
Explore how Microsoft’s Nudge code review reminder works, and how intelligent reminders can help teams complete reviews sooner without adding unnecessary noise.
Read articleMeasuring Code Review Quality through PR Rejections
Do more rejected pull requests mean better code reviews? Examine why rejection counts can misrepresent review quality and encourage the wrong behavior.
Read articleHow to successfully blog as a developer in 2020
Lessons from 18 months of developer blogging while moving from research and engineering at Microsoft to an independent consulting and training business.
Read articleStacked pull requests: make code reviews faster, easier, and more effective
Learn how stacked pull requests split large changes into smaller, coherent reviews, helping reviewers understand the code and give useful feedback sooner.
Read articleBetter code quality with effective collaboration and code review
An announcement of a GitLab virtual event on effective collaboration and code reviews, including a discussion of the upcoming code review book.
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