Code Review Culture

Review today or debug tomorrow

Ask a programmer to review 10 lines of code, he’ll find 10 issues. Ask him to do 500 lines and he’ll say it looks good. - @girayozil Code review is a really subjective thing where each team or even individual runs things very differently. However, a bad code review process can lead to bad code smells and unnecessary tech debt (just ask all the vibe coders out there 🫣). I will try my best to share my rather opinionated takes while explaining the reasoning behind each of them. ...

May 23, 2025

The Art of Posting

It's both self-promotion and communication

This piece is specifically more about Meta’s unique culture of “posting” about things but I imagine it can be a useful reference on communication in general. Many people loathe this process and complain about how it’s just a lot of “self-promotion” and while there’s definitely some truth to it, it’s also a valuable communication avenue that you can leverage to your advantage. As we will explore further below, posting by itself is more of a bonus as the post will still require actual substance (which is your work lol). ...

May 16, 2025

Push Fearlessly with Automated Testing

Move faster by moving slower

Conventional wisdom is that writing tests slows you down, because the alternative is that you don’t need to write tests. In fact, Meta (then Facebook) was famously lacking of automated test inline with it’s famous “move fast and break things” mantra. However, from what I’ve seen, I beg to differ. This is part of a series (The Opinionated Engineer) where I share my strong opinions on engineering practices. Subscribe to the newsletter today! You will need to manually get this secret from here Subscribe You can also checkout previous issues here before deciding. When to write tests? # If you love something, put a ring test on it. ...

May 4, 2025

The Opinionated Engineer

Strong opinions about engineering practice

Historically, my personal blog has been mostly about “how to do x”, “guide on making y” but never about ideology or engineering practices. This new series intends to change that where I’ll explore the more opinionated side of myself especially around engineering practices instead of just the pure technical stuff. Topics # I have not fully planned out the entire series but here are a few topics I have in mind (or have released) so far… ...

May 4, 2025