- How Performance Reviews Can Kill Your Culture | fs.blog - “Forced comparisons against others don’t accomplish what we want from them. We think it inspires people. It often makes them dislike each other. […] What matters is not what we do compared to what someone else does, it’s what we do compared to what we’re capable of doing.”
- “ChatGPT said this” Is Lazy | Terrible Software (October 2025) - Pasting AI-generated code reviews creates more work for other engineers as they need to spend time figuring out if the review is actually relevant. If you do use AI to review code, review its feedback first and try putting it in your own words to make it more specific
- Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews | sean goedecke (October 2025) - Common code review anti-patterns and what you should do instead. The first item in particular (reviewing the diff in the context of the system) is probably one of the most valuable reviews to give but it also requires having a strong mental model of the system
- GitLab Flavored Markdown (GLFM) | GitLab Docs - This week I learnt that you can resize images in GitLab markdown by specifying the dimensions you want in curly braces (Eg:
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