Tips for Software Engineers

Like myself 😅! These are not rules. Evolving ideas…

Be a good human

• Approach with curiosity
• Be grateful to be wrong
• Own your contributions
• Communicate often
• Avoid the cover ass attitude

• Bias Index

Be a tidy human

• Self review
• Write less code

• YAGNI

• Don’t leave dead code behind
• Choose dependencies wisely
• Your method is telling a story
• You write code for others, not for yourself

Tools

• Coding with AI aid
  • AI coding warning

Techniques

• Fail fast to learn fast
• When stuck, ask for help ASAP
• Avoid reinventing the wheel, someone else already solved it
• Code review pyramid
• Vertical Slicing
• A bad decision is better than no decision
• Broken changes can be compared to previous working version
• Document incidents while they are happening
• Make it work, then make it better
• Tell don’t ask
• Use postmortems to learn from incidents