Alex Omeyer
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United Kingdom
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The Engineer's Guide to Creating a Technical Debt Proposal
This article will guide you through the process to craft a technical debt proposal to justify the time spent solving technical issues. → Read More
5 Fantastic Developer Tools for Asynchronous Communication 🎯
As dev teams are looking for new ways to stay productive and communicate effectively, asynchronous communication gains popularity. Asynchronous communication doesn’t require planning, reduces context switching, and allows recording, rewatching, and rereading the information — which is great for long-term projects. → Read More
10 must-know patterns for writing clean code with Python🐍
Python is one of the most elegant and clean programming languages, yet having a beautiful and clean... Tagged with python, webdev, programming, codequality. → Read More
Measuring Sprint Velocity
We’re going to look at what sprint velocity is, how it can affect your development cycle, and what formulas you can use to measure sprint velocity. → Read More
Kill Technical Debt Before it Kills Your Project
The negative impact of technical debt on businesses is massive. Here are the best ways to prevent and manage technical debt that both startups and enterprise companies can implement today. The expression technical debt gets thrown around a lot and every Engineer knows that it slows down the development process. In this article, I want to give practical advice on how your engineering team can… → Read More
An Engineer's Guide to TODOs: How to Get Things Done
A lack of focus, lack of visibility into our codebase problems, and context switching decrease developer productivity. Here are the best ways and tools that'll help you get things done. → Read More
Fight Technical Debt With These 10 JetBrains Extensions
I see many Engineering teams under huge pressure to build fast and often lacking time to fix and clean up their codebase. → Read More
17 Apps to Boost Developer Productivity
To help you build the ultimate workflow, we went looking for the developer productivity tools that are currently trending in coding communities. → Read More
5 Metrics to Track when Refactoring your Codebase
Code refactoring provides a well-needed mental break for developers, and I think many devs can relate to this. Writing code all day is very demanding, especially if you create new functionality day by day. It’s a taxing exercise, and developers often need some space to think about the codebase's overall organization and look back on what can be improved. → Read More
How to Measure Your Technical Debt: 8 Metrics to Consider
Technical debt metrics help you to monitor deficiencies in your current codebase. We decided to look at how they work, and pick out the best tracking tools. → Read More
The Engineer's Complete Guide to Backlog Grooming📝
Without organization, backlogs get messy quickly, and issues can’t be prioritized. → Read More
Software Engineering Best Practices + The Best Resources to Save🚀
The reality is, tech moves fast, and it's easy to get distracted by the latest software, tool, or trend. → Read More
The Comprehensive Code Review Checklist
A code review is a helpful tool for teams to improve code quality. Yet, there are many other benefits to reviewing code. → Read More
Get Rid Of Technical Debt In 10 VS Code Extensions
Many engineering teams get stuck and cannot ship quality software fast because of technical debt. The best engineering teams I've talked to use the right tools. → Read More
Bad Codebases Shoo Developers Away
In this software engineering survey, we learn about the state of technical debt and technical hiring. → Read More
Productivity Hack: How Developers can Reduce Context Switching
Context switching prevents developers from finishing tasks quickly. Let's look at how to avoid constant context switching to improve productivity. → Read More
7 VS Code Extensions for Frontend Developers
As a developer, you’re always looking for cutting-edge tools, tricks, and extensions. Here are 7 tools that'll improve your productivity and efficiency. → Read More
10 Best JetBrains IDEs Plugins to Boost Your Productivity in 2021
I asked devs who use IntelliJ IDEA: what are your favourite plugins to ship quality code fast? Here are the 10 most popular plugins most of the developers mentioned. → Read More
Is Low-Code the Solution to Technical Debt?
Low-code is a means to develop applications with visual, intent-driven development tools reducing the need to create lines of custom code. → Read More
How to Write Meaningful Code Comments
In this guide, you will learn why it is important to write code comments, what are different code comment types, and the 4 best practices. → Read More