Accelerate your software engineering career Series&#39; Articles

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Pawel Kadluczka

Nov 26 '23

Write clean diffs to accelerate your dev career

#softwareengineering #career #codereview #productivity

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Pawel Kadluczka

Nov 30 '23

Write good commit messages to accelerate your dev career

#softwareengineering #career

2 min read

Pawel Kadluczka

Dec 7 '23

Read code to accelerate your dev career

#softwareengineering #career #productivity

2 min read

Pawel Kadluczka

Dec 16 '23

Learn how to unblock yourself to accelerate your dev career

#careerdevelopment #career #softwareengineering

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Pawel Kadluczka

Dec 23 '23

Ask for help to accelerate your dev career

#softwareengineering #career #productivity

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Pawel Kadluczka

Dec 29 '23

Why you should always merge your diffs promptly

#softwareengineering #softwaredevelopment #career

2 min read

Pawel Kadluczka

Jan 4

Code is tax - have a good reason to write it

#softwareengineering #career

3 min read

Pawel Kadluczka

Jan 12

Future proof code

#softwareengineering #careerdevelopment #programming #productivity

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Pawel Kadluczka

Jan 19

The downsides of an inconsistent codebase and what you can do about it.

#softwareengineering #career #productivity #teamwork

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Pawel Kadluczka

Jan 26

7 Tips To Accelerate Your Code Reviews

#softwareengineering #codereview #productivity #careerdevelopment

4 min read

Cover image for How not to ruin your code with comments

Pawel Kadluczka

Feb 2

How not to ruin your code with comments

#softwareengineering #productivity #cleancode #career

4 min read

Cover image for How to manage scope creep in pull requests.

Pawel Kadluczka

Feb 8

How to manage scope creep in pull requests.

#softwareengineering #career #beginners #productivity

2 min read

Cover image for Respect 'boring' technologies, they are your lifeline

Pawel Kadluczka

Feb 15

Respect 'boring' technologies, they are your lifeline

#career #softwareengineering #productivity #programming

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Cover image for Simple prioritization framework for software developers

Pawel Kadluczka

Feb 23

Simple prioritization framework for software developers

#career #productivity #programming #advice

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Cover image for RFC Pull Requests: Because Code Wins Arguments

Pawel Kadluczka

Feb 29

RFC Pull Requests: Because Code Wins Arguments

#softwareengineering #careerdevelopment #productivity

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Pawel Kadluczka

Mar 7

Computer Science fundamentals are still important.

#softwareengineering #programming #computerscience #career

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Cover image for The Biggest Enemy of Focus and Flow

Pawel Kadluczka

Mar 14

The Biggest Enemy of Focus and Flow

#softwareengineering #productivity #career

3 min read

Cover image for Prioritize bugs like a boss (because you can't fix everything)

Pawel Kadluczka

Apr 4

Prioritize bugs like a boss (because you can't fix everything)

#softwareengineering #career #programming #testing

4 min read

Cover image for The self-inflicted pain of premature abstractions

Pawel Kadluczka

Apr 11

The self-inflicted pain of premature abstractions

#productivity #softwareengineering #careerdevelopment

3 min read

Cover image for Top 5 Jokes Software Developers Tell Themselves and their Managers

Pawel Kadluczka

Apr 25

Top 5 Jokes Software Developers Tell Themselves and their Managers

#softwareengineering #career #careerdevelopment #beginners

2 min read

Cover image for Don't let "later" derail your software engineering career

Pawel Kadluczka

May 2

Don't let "later" derail your software engineering career

#softwaredevelopment #careerdevelopment #beginners #productivity

3 min read

Cover image for Why Should You Care About Minimal Reproducible Examples (and how to create one)

Pawel Kadluczka

May 10

Why Should You Care About Minimal Reproducible Examples (and how to create one)

#softwaredevelopment #career #beginners #productivity

3 min read

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Pawel Kadluczka

May 16

Use Test Plans to become more effective Software Developer

#softwareengineering #beginners #career #productivity

3 min read

Cover image for Top 5 Blunders Made by Code Reviewers

Pawel Kadluczka

May 23

Top 5 Blunders Made by Code Reviewers

#softwareengineering #career #programming #productivity

4 min read

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Pawel Kadluczka

May 30

Generating Ideas and Driving them to completion

#career #softwareengineering #productivity

3 min read

Cover image for The Curious Case of Bugs that Fix Themselves

Pawel Kadluczka

Jun 7

The Curious Case of Bugs that Fix Themselves

#programming #beginners #softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering

3 min read

Cover image for Do Unit Tests Find Bugs?

Pawel Kadluczka

Jun 13

Do Unit Tests Find Bugs?

3 min read

Cover image for "Think Big" or make progress?

Pawel Kadluczka

Jun 20

"Think Big" or make progress?

#career #careerdevelopment #softwareengineering

3 min read

Cover image for Top 5 Unit Test Problems That Haunt Software Developers

Pawel Kadluczka

Jun 27

The paradox of test coverage

#softwareengineering #testing #career #programming

3 min read

Cover image for What can Taylor Swift teach us about Software Engineering?

Pawel Kadluczka

Aug 1

What can Taylor Swift teach us about Software Engineering?

#jokes #softwareengineering #devops #careerdevelopment

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Cover image for How to effectively work in big codebases

Pawel Kadluczka

Aug 15

How to effectively work in big codebases

#softwareengineering #careerdevelopment #programming #productivity

5 min read

Cover image for What is "gold plating" and why you should avoid it

Pawel Kadluczka

Aug 24

What is "gold plating" and why you should avoid it

#softwareengineering #productivity #careerdevelopment #beginners

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Cover image for What it is like to work in Meta's (Facebook's) monorepo

Pawel Kadluczka

Sep 2

What it is like to work in Meta's (Facebook's) monorepo

#softwareengineering #productivity #career #tooling

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Cover image for Do code reviews find bugs?

Pawel Kadluczka

Sep 7

Do code reviews find bugs?

#softwareengineering #productivity #career #codereview

3 min read

Cover image for How to improve your coding skills (without spending a lot of time)

Pawel Kadluczka

Sep 14

How to improve your coding skills (without spending a lot of time)

#softwareengineering #learning #careerdevelopment #growth

3 min read

Cover image for These 5 habits will make you a great code reviewer

Pawel Kadluczka

Sep 27

These 5 habits will make you a great code reviewer

#codereview #career #softwareengineering #productivity

4 min read

Cover image for The 3 categories of skills every software developer needs to know

Pawel Kadluczka

Oct 4

The 3 categories of skills every software developer needs to know

#development #career #learning #softwareengineering

3 min read

Cover image for A simple way to ship maintainable software

Pawel Kadluczka

Oct 11

A simple way to ship maintainable software

#softwareengineering #career #productivity #devops

3 min read

Cover image for Want your productivity to skyrocket? Avoid this trap!

Pawel Kadluczka

Oct 19

Want your productivity to skyrocket? Avoid this trap!

#softwaredevelopment #career #leadership #softwareengineering

3 min read

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Pawel Kadluczka

Oct 26

Understand the purpose of your work

#career #softwaredevelopment #beginners #productivity

3 min read

Cover image for The Must-Have Skill Every Senior Developer Needs

Pawel Kadluczka

Nov 2

The Must-Have Skill Every Senior Developer Needs

#career #softwareengineering #beginners #productivity

5 min read

Cover image for How to quickly ramp up on new codebases

Pawel Kadluczka

Nov 8

How to quickly ramp up on new codebases

#beginners #softwareengineering #productivity #career

4 min read

Cover image for Overthinking Software Projects

Pawel Kadluczka

Nov 16

Overthinking Software Projects

#productivity #career #softwareengineering