Code Review

Code review is either a team's best learning tool or a source of dread, ego battles, and bottlenecks. The difference isn't the tooling — it's the culture. Here's how to get it right.

I opened a PR I was proud of. The review that came back rearranged how I think about being a good engineer. Here's the whole uncomfortable story.

Our code reviews were slow, tense, and political. One simple rule fixed the speed, the tone, and the quality all at once. Here it is.