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Delete code to accelerate your dev career

Delete code to accelerate your dev career

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Write clean diffs to accelerate your dev career

Write clean diffs to accelerate your dev career

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Write good commit messages to accelerate your dev career

Write good commit messages to accelerate your dev career

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Read code to accelerate your dev career

Read code to accelerate your dev career

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Learn how to unblock yourself to accelerate your dev career

Learn how to unblock yourself to accelerate your dev career

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Ask for help to accelerate your dev career

Ask for help to accelerate your dev career

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Why you should always merge your diffs promptly

Why you should always merge your diffs promptly

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Code is tax - have a good reason to write it

Code is tax - have a good reason to write it

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Future proof code
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Future proof code

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The downsides of an inconsistent codebase and what you can do about it.
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The downsides of an inconsistent codebase and what you can do about it.

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7 Tips To Accelerate Your Code Reviews
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7 Tips To Accelerate Your Code Reviews

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How not to ruin your code with comments
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How not to ruin your code with comments

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How to manage scope creep in pull requests.
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How to manage scope creep in pull requests.

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Respect 'boring' technologies, they are your lifeline
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Respect 'boring' technologies, they are your lifeline

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Simple prioritization framework for software developers
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Simple prioritization framework for software developers

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RFC Pull Requests: Because Code Wins Arguments
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RFC Pull Requests: Because Code Wins Arguments

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Computer Science fundamentals are still important.
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Computer Science fundamentals are still important.

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The Biggest Enemy of Focus and Flow
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The Biggest Enemy of Focus and Flow

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Prioritize bugs like a boss (because you can't fix everything)
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Prioritize bugs like a boss (because you can't fix everything)

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The self-inflicted pain of premature abstractions
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The self-inflicted pain of premature abstractions

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Top 5 Jokes Software Developers Tell Themselves and their Managers
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Top 5 Jokes Software Developers Tell Themselves and their Managers

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Don't let "later" derail your software engineering career
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Don't let "later" derail your software engineering career

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Why Should You Care About Minimal Reproducible Examples (and how to create one)
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Why Should You Care About Minimal Reproducible Examples (and how to create one)

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Use Test Plans to become more effective Software Developer
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Use Test Plans to become more effective Software Developer

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Top 5 Blunders Made by Code Reviewers
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Top 5 Blunders Made by Code Reviewers

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Generating Ideas and Driving them to completion
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Generating Ideas and Driving them to completion

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The Curious Case of Bugs that Fix Themselves
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The Curious Case of Bugs that Fix Themselves

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Do Unit Tests Find Bugs?
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Do Unit Tests Find Bugs?

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"Think Big" or make progress?
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"Think Big" or make progress?

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Top 5 Unit Test Problems That Haunt Software Developers
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Top 5 Unit Test Problems That Haunt Software Developers

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The paradox of test coverage
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The paradox of test coverage

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What can Taylor Swift teach us about Software Engineering?
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What can Taylor Swift teach us about Software Engineering?

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How to effectively work in big codebases
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How to effectively work in big codebases

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What is "gold plating" and why you should avoid it
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What is "gold plating" and why you should avoid it

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What it is like to work in Meta's (Facebook's) monorepo
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What it is like to work in Meta's (Facebook's) monorepo

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Do code reviews find bugs?
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Do code reviews find bugs?

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How to improve your coding skills (without spending a lot of time)
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How to improve your coding skills (without spending a lot of time)

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These 5 habits will make you a great code reviewer
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These 5 habits will make you a great code reviewer

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The 3 categories of skills every software developer needs to know
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The 3 categories of skills every software developer needs to know

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A simple way to ship maintainable software
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A simple way to ship maintainable software

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Want your productivity to skyrocket? Avoid this trap!
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Want your productivity to skyrocket? Avoid this trap!

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Understand the purpose of your work
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Understand the purpose of your work

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The Must-Have Skill Every Senior Developer Needs
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The Must-Have Skill Every Senior Developer Needs

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