Posts
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How @francisfuzz approaches code review
I’ll be the first to confess: I love reviewing code. It’s one of my favorite things to do as a developer.
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Web Summit Lisbon 2023
I first heard about Web Summit through a work colleague who attended the previous year. I followed the marketing emails for a while and applied for a Developer Ticket. After getting accepted, I did not know what to expect, but I knew that the best way to approach it was with an open mind. Attending this year’s Web Summit in Lisbon helped me gain a broader perspective on how people are developing technology outside of GitHub and Microsoft. I have shared my collective learnings below based on the three sessions that had the most profound impact on my experience.
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Building Psychological Safety In Code Reviews
GitHub hosts a monthly Day of Learning where employees are welcome to take the time they beed to learn about something that’s related to their professional development.
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Shipping small
One of GitHub’s Leadership principles is “ship to learn.” I’ve found that this principle is often effective when I ship small, potent pull requests: a pull request that is small in scope yet has a high impact on the product.
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Seeking Clarity Without Being A Jerk
I wrote this many moons ago when I still worked as a program manager for the GitHub Support Community forum. Back then, I focused on understanding and improving our problem resolution rate. The nature of my work was strategic, creative, and collaborative and my projects varied from researching, ideating, and creating content for helping first-time community members to collaborating with other teams to tackle a backlog of topics in our forum.