Greg Foster

Former Airbnb dev tools engineer, now working on https://graphite.dev/! Big fan of coffee, indie music, D&D, scuba diving, and dev tools.

NYC Joined on Aug 25, 2021 https://graphite.dev

Education

Harvard

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Software Engineer

Graphite

Everything engineering, terrible at spoken language

A little bit of Rust, and guitar. I'll probably master Rust before I learn beginner guitar at this rate.

https://graphite.dev/

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Greg Foster for Graphite

Feb 8 '24

The "Mom Test" in software development: asking good questions when everyone is lying to you

5 min read

Greg Foster

Jul 25 '23

The ideal PR is 50 lines long

#github #codereview #pr

5 min read

Greg Foster

Nov 17 '21

Stacked changes: how Facebook and Google engineers stay unblocked and ship faster

#github #git #startup #devops

3 min read

Greg Foster

Sep 2 '21

How to use native git as a key-value store

#git #database #phabricator #branches

3 min read

Greg Foster

Aug 26 '21

How to visualize stacked git branches

#github #git #cli #devtools

4 min read

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The "Mom Test" in software development: asking good questions when everyone is lying to you

The ideal PR is 50 lines long

Stacked changes: how Facebook and Google engineers stay unblocked and ship faster

How to use native git as a key-value store

How to visualize stacked git branches