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Relationships Ruin Your Code Reviews May 10, 2024

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Key Insights:

Importance of Code Reviews: Code reviews are essential for error detection, understanding new features, adhering to coding standards, and ensuring only reviewed code is deployed.
Emotional Impact: Emotional dynamics play a significant role, with 30% of developers reviewing code from less favored colleagues, which can lead to biased judgments and negative feelings.
Striving for Objectivity: Despite personal feelings, approximately 76% of developers strive for objectivity to maintain professionalism.
Impact of Developer Experience: The experience level of a developer also influences the depth of code reviews and the manner in which feedback is provided.
Perceptions Formed: Reviewers' perceptions of code quality can affect their views on the author's skills or character.

Strategies to Mitigate Bias: The episode outlines multiple strategies to reduce bias in code reviews, such as involving multiple reviewers, standardizing review criteria, and implementing anonymous reviews.

Additional Resources:

Read the full paper called "How social interactions can affect Modern Code Review"
Visit awesomecodereviews.com to discover Dr. McKayla’s latest article on the top 10 code review techniques and methodologies, including systematic approaches like using checklists and change-impact analysis.

Conclusion: The podcast sheds light on both the positive and negative impacts of human factors in code reviews and emphasizes the need for strategies to minimize bias, enhancing both code quality and team dynamics.

Measuring and improving developer experience Jun 23, 2023

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Make code reviews your superpower at awesomecodereviews.com!

Episode Resources:
Paper on improving developer experience
Abi's thoughts on the DX paper
Abi Noda's LinkedIn
Abi's podcast for Engineering Enablement leaders

About Abi Noda
Abi Noda is the CEO and founder of DX, a company that helps measure and improve developer experience.

From DevOps to Platform Engineering Mar 22, 2023

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Episode Resources:
What is platform engineering?
What is an internal developer platform?
What is Dynamic Configuration Management?
Salesman tricks for the Platform Engineer
Platform Engineering community
PlatformCon 2023
Luca’s LinkedIn and Twitter

About Luca Galante
Luca is leading product at Humanitec, saw hundreds of DevOps and platform setups, and shares his learnings in his weekly newsletter PlatformWeekly (with 10k subscribers). He is also the core contributor to the Platform Engineering community, with 10k+ meetup members, and 8k+ Slack members.

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Can Engineering metrics be ethical?

Measure developer productivity using the SPACE framework

High-performing engineering teams through DX

From English teacher to dev in 9 month: A self-taught developer journey Mar 08, 2023

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Nadia's Book
Nadia's website
Nadia's Twitter

About Nadia Zhuk
Nadia is a software engineer at Intercom, and was previously working at Zendesk. Before, Nadia was an English teacher, and journalist, until she decided to learn programming and enter the tech world.

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Do code reviews frustrate developers?

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Do code reviews frustrate developers? Feb 22, 2023

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Episode Resources:
Alexander's Twitter
Alexander's Research
Awesome Code Reviews
Papers:
An exploratory study on confusion in code reviews
Emotions and Perceived Productivity of Software Developers at the Workplace
Recognizing developers' emotions while programming
Gendered Experiences of Software Engineers During the COVID-19 Crisis
Developer experience research paper

About Alexander Serebrenik
Alexander is a Full Professor of Social Software Engineering at the Software Engineering and Technology cluster of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Alexander’s research goal is to facilitate evolution of software by taking into account social aspects of software development.

Fighting software vulnerabilities with software bill of materials Feb 08, 2023

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Episode Resources:
Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity
Alpha-Omega Projects
Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa)
Tools to create SBOM

About Barak Brudo
Barak Brudo helps organizations secure their software supply chain. He works as a Developer Relations Advocate at Scribe Security.

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A soul-crushing job search Jan 18, 2023

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Episode Resources:
Heather's Twitter
Heather's job search blog post
Heather's Blog

About Heather Reid
Heather Reid is a Test Engineer at Glofox. Before that she was the community boss for Ministry of Testing, making sure that the testing community had everything to be successful. Before that, she was a software tester at Exploristics and at Moola.

Episode Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:00 What does a test community boss do?
06:28 Can we forget our skills?
08:00 Attending workshops
09:00 4-hour interview experience
10:00 Hurtful rejections pile up
12:10 Can't ask questions in an interview
14:00 A good interview experience
19:00 A technical test
23:00 Different backgrounds and perspectives
26:10 Arguing during an interview
30:50 Improving the state of testing 33:50 Adding accessibility 40:00 Career advice for job seekers

Entrepreneurship, Career Growth and Testing: Top 5 Episodes of 2022 Jan 04, 2023

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This episode samples:

Alvaro Trigo, who once was a web developer but could quit his day job to work on his open source software Fullpage.js.
Daniel Vassallo tells us why he left his cushy job at Amazon to start many small businesses.
Dagna Bieda explains how you can fast-track your engineering career and what mindset has to do with professional growth.
Mauricio Aniche explains how to write tests that find bugs and what domain-driven testing is.
Nuchals Dular shares why the engineering manager position he worked hard toward to wasn’t meant for him.
YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/XKKFCmvK7_M

Coding practices at MAANG companies versus startups Dec 20, 2022

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About Michael Lynch
Michael is a software engineer and entrepreneur. He has launched several businesses after leaving Google in 2018. His hardware/software business, called TinyPilot, lets you control any computer remotely and has brought him the most success so far.

Episode Resources:
Michael's Twitter
How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human
Tiny Pilot

Can Engineering metrics be ethical? Dec 07, 2022

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Episode Resources:
Multitudes
Lauren's Twitter
Developer experience research paper
DORA metrics
SPACE developer productivity framework

About Lauren Peate
Lauren is the CEO and founder of Multitudes. Her goal is to empower engineering teams to be high-performing through a people-first way to software performance metrics. Lauren’s worked with tech teams around the world, from Silicon Valley to the Middle East and now New Zealand.