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Expanding My English Vocabulary (5 New Words)

I am learning and posting to improve my English vocabulary and share useful words with others who are on the same journey. Expanding your vocabulary can make a big difference in how confidently you communicate and understand new ideas. Here…

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Mastering Code Reviews | Article 7: Debug the Code, Not the Person

After a decade of leading Java teams, I’ve learned that the moment a code review feels like an “attack,” the engineering process has already failed. As a seasoned guy, I approach every Pull Request with one mindset: We are all on…

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Mastering Code Reviews | Article 6: The Force Multiplier — Mentoring Through PRs

As a seasoned Java engineer, I’ve realized that my time is the most expensive thing the company has. If I spend the next five years catching the same “N+1 query” or “Transaction” mistakes in every Pull Request, I have failed.…

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Mastering Code Reviews | Article 5: Pragmatism Over Perfection — Picking Your Battles

One of the hardest lessons I learned in my years is that perfect code is a myth. When I was a mid-level dev, I wanted every Java class to be a masterpiece of design patterns. I would block PRs for days…

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Mastering Code Reviews | Article 4: The 3:00 AM Test — Reviewing for Production

I have a simple rule: When I open a Pull Request, I imagine I’m the one getting paged at 3:00 AM because this specific code just crashed production. Junior devs review for Features (Does it work?). As a seasoned engineer, I review…

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Mastering Code Reviews | Article 3: Hunting “Invisible” Bugs — Following the Data

Most junior devs review code by checking if the logic “looks” right. They look at a for loop or an if statement and say, “Yeah, that works.” But in a complex Java system, the worst bugs aren’t in the math; they are in the state.…

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Mastering Code Reviews | Article 2: Context First — Why I Read the Ticket and the POM Before the Code

If you open a Pull Request and immediately start looking at the .java files, you’re doing it wrong. You are looking at the “How” before you understand the “Why.”I’ve seen seniors approve beautiful, perfectly tested code that solved a problem…

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Mastering Code Reviews | Article 1: Stop Being a “Human Linter”

If you are a Senior or Staff engineer and you’re still leaving comments like “you forgot a space here” or “use camelCase for this variable,” you are wasting everyone’s time—especially your own. Seriously. Stop doing it. I spent years being the “Code Police.” I…

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Mastering Code Reviews | Article 0: The Code Review Manifesto

In my early years as a Java developer, I thought a great code review was an interrogation. I looked for every missing Optional, argued over final keywords, and felt like a “guardian of quality” every time I left 50 comments on a Pull…

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Expanding My English Vocabulary (5 New Words)

I am learning and posting to improve my English vocabulary and share useful words with others who are on the same journey. Expanding your vocabulary can make a big difference in how confidently you communicate and understand new ideas. Here…

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Expanding My English Vocabulary (5 New Words)

I am learning and posting to improve my English vocabulary and share useful words with others who are on the same journey. Expanding your vocabulary can make a big difference in how confidently you communicate and understand new ideas. Here…

Read MoreExpanding My English Vocabulary (5 New Words)

The Direction Leak | Article 7: Iterative Process

You’ve got a team that’s executing like clockwork. Code is shipping, new features are rolling out, and your sprint planning meetings are starting to feel like a well-oiled machine. But then something hits you: The “perfect” solutions you were so…

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