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A guide to measuring and improving code quality
You have 0 further articles remaining this month. Join LeadDev.com for free to read unlimited articles. Here's what you need to know about defining, measuring, and keeping up the quality of your codebases. As a technical leader in any organization, code quality is one of your key focuses, day in and day out. How do you improve the quality of your code? How do you ensure there’s time for it?
Changing Our Engineering Mindset to Become Builders Again
I've been working at Buffer since 2014, and even before I joined, I was always impressed by the Buffer team's product and engineering culture: how quick they shipped improvements and how close everyone was to the users (not uncommon to see engineers responding to comments on Twitter!). I found that "can-do" attitude inspiring and contagious, and it's amazing when things click that way. Of course, back when I joined, we were a team of 24 people; we all wore many hats and had no managers.
Common mistakes new staff engineers make… and how to avoid them
45 mins. You have 0 further articles remaining this month. Join LeadDev.com for free to read unlimited articles. Starting a new role on the Individual Contributor track comes with new challenges, especially if your role naturally becomes less team centric. Having a network of mentors, managers, and fellow engineers who can support your step into a staff engineer role is always a great resource. Still, early mistakes are often inevitable and sometimes unavoidable when you’re in a new position.
8 Obvious Secrets to Overcoming Impostor Syndrome
Impostor syndrome is a psychological phenomenon in which people are unable to see their own accomplishments, dismissing them as luck, timing, or as a result of deceiving others into thinking they are more intelligent and competent than they believe themselves to be. Impostor syndrome is much more common that you’d think—o ver 70% of people have experienced it at one time or other in their lives .
8 Tips About Overcoming Impostor Syndrome I Wish I Had Known
Impostor syndrome is much more common that you’d think—over 70% of people have experienced it at one time or other in their lives. It is known that lots of entrepreneurial and high-achieving women have it, but I’ve also found that it’s pretty common in men, too. In fact, it seems like people in the software or online industries present lots of cases of impostor syndrome.
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