The Engineering Manager

Linting code When many engineers are contributing code to the same application, there needs to be an agreement on how that code should be written. Ideally, when reading a codebase, the style and logical layout should feel like it was written by one person, thus making it easier to understand. This stylistic and structural consistency can be achieved by the maintainers of that codebase specifying contribution guidelines which are enforced during code review, such as […]

The three Rs: reading, writing and arithmetic. As the tenet of basic education, children spend years learning how to input, manipulate and output information. It forms the foundations that allow more complex subjects to be taught such as science and literature. However, some can often regard writing as an old skill, or a lost discipline that isn’t as important with the prevalence of communication via technology. Yet, I would argue that being able to write […]