Blog series
Practical habits for code review, pull requests, feedback, and mentoring that improve the work without losing care for the people doing it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
