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Engineering Culture

The human side of building software — reviews, feedback, mentorship, and teams that grow people instead of burning them out.

Practical, people-first writing on engineering culture: how to run code reviews that make code and people better, give and receive feedback well, write pull requests reviewers love, mentor engineers into seniors, and build kind, high-trust teams. Real scripts, examples, and lessons that scale from a two-person startup to a thousand-engineer org.

Engineering Culture

From Software Engineer to Technical Manager: The Counterintuitive Things You Learn

Moving from Software Engineer to Technical Manager isn’t a bigger version of the same job — it’s a quiet rewrite of the very habits that made you good at the last one. Step back from the IDE to see architecture, people, and process, and three surprising truths come into focus: code is an asset and a liability at once, your value shifts from addition to multiplication, and delegation is simple to say but genuinely hard to let go of. A practical, honest reflection for senior engineers eyeing the lead role — and for new managers still reaching for the keyboard.

Jun 3, 202612 min read

Engineering Culture

The Art of Code Review: How to Critique Code Without Crushing People

Code review is where team culture is made or broken. A practical guide to reviewing code so it ships better AND the author comes back stronger — concrete phrasing, a reviewer's checklist, and the habits that quietly turn reviews toxic.

May 29, 202614 min read

Engineering Culture

Kind Engineering: Why Being Kind Makes You a Better Engineer

Kindness isn’t niceness, and it isn’t soft. It’s a force multiplier — clearer feedback, safer incidents, faster-growing teammates. What ‘kind engineering’ really means, and how to practise it in code reviews, incidents, and everyday work.

May 29, 202613 min read

Engineering Culture

How to Write a Pull Request People Actually Enjoy Reviewing

A great pull request is a gift to your reviewer: small, well-described, easy to say yes to. The anatomy of a reviewable PR — size, title, description, commit hygiene, and self-review — with concrete before/after examples.

May 29, 202613 min read

Engineering Culture

Feedback That Lands: Giving and Receiving Critique as an Engineer

Most engineers were never taught how to give feedback — or how to take it. A field guide to specific, kind, actionable feedback, and to staying open when you're on the receiving end, with ready-to-use scripts.

May 29, 202613 min read

Engineering Culture

Mentoring Engineers: How to Grow Juniors into Seniors

Great teams are grown, not just hired. From leading engineering teams: how to mentor so people level up fast — pairing, code review as teaching, the right-sized stretch, and the mindset shifts that turn a junior into someone you'd trust with anything.

May 29, 202614 min read