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When I joined Graphite, there were almost no tests in the entire codebase. Out of the team of five engineers, three had previously worked at Meta — and had internalized the poor testing culture practiced there.

Opinionated best practices for building user-friendly and robust REST APIs.

“Clean Code” has garnered a bit of notoriety despite coining an endearing term we use in coding conversations. This book from 2008 is a compilation of principles and studies that &#8220…

In the world of frontend development, one thing remains certain: change is the only constant. New frameworks emerge, and libraries can become obsolete without warning. Keeping up with the ever-changing ecosystem involves handling code conversions, both big and small. One significant shift for us was the transition from Enzyme to React Testing Library (RTL), prompting […]

Let’s analyze the various types of metrics and how to design a minimum viable process to use them for good.

Sidenote is a browser extension that allows you to comment on any page of the internet. Say what you want, where you want.

App developers often forget to test how their apps perform under less-than-ideal networking environments. Learn how you can use the Network Link conditioner to simulate a spotty Internet connection on your device.

The dangers of DRY, the web of WET, the awesomeness of AHA.

The adaptive interface system for modern web experiences.

You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their vision for the future of React, some of my favourite libraries got scrambled 😅. In this blog post, we’re going to explore the compatibility issues between React Server Components and CSS-in-JS libraries like styled-components. You’ll understand what the issue is, what the options are, and what’s on the horizon.

Class Variance Authority

Ruby and Rails have several features to make your code more performant using async programming. Here’s a list of these tools and how to use them.

Atlassian's internal first-generation data lake grows by 85 terabytes a day. Since it's a data lake, it contains data from varied sources and with varied degrees of documentation, metadata, lineage, quality checks, and observability, acting as a centralized repository for storing vast amounts of raw, unprocessed data.

Variations on a Classic Design Pattern for Modern Applications

This blog introduces Cucumber, a tool for Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) in Java applications. It covers the project setup using Maven, writing scenarios in GWT notation, implementing applicatio…

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Few salient reasons why I think some programmers aren't keen to refactor code.

37signals have talked a lot about how they build new features for existing products using Shape Up, where they carefully hammer the scope to avoid letting anything ever drag on for more than six we...

Are you ready to conduct the monorepo orchestra?

Far from a bubble, we're watching a new generation of tech start-ups realize the Web's original potential, says Marc Andreessen.

You may have seen AI startups that magically turn long podcast videos into viral clips for...

I've worked on many projects throughout my career as a software engineer. However, Helix - Uber's Rider app rewrite in 2016 introducing Swift and RIBs - stands as the craziest project by a margin. This is my story and some of my journal entries from the time. Prologue It's the

Solar is in the process of shearing off the base of the entire global industrial stack – energy – and the tech sector still lacks a unified thesis for how to best enable, accelerate, an…

Embrace the future of ESLint. Discover invaluable insights and tips for a smooth migration to the new config architecture.

Since the late 1990s, the number of US publicly traded companies has plunged from just over 8K in 1996 to about 4.6K in 2022. (It’s bounced back...

useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the performance of our applications in certain contexts. I recently used it to solve a gnarly performance problem on this blog, and in this tutorial, I'll show you how! ⚡