Code Review
Pull request review for small teams: what to block, what to skip, and how AI-written diffs change the pass.
- Feb- 2026 -28 February
How to Review a Database Migration
A migration file that looks clean in review can still take down a production database at 2 a.m.
Read More » - Feb- 2026 -5 February
Mistakes Reviewers Make on AI-Generated Diffs
A code review tool that summarizes a diff for the reviewer is now standard equipment in most engineering organizations, and the summaries are usually correct. That is the problem.
Read More » - Jan- 2026 -14 January
How to Review the Tests, Not Just the Feature Diff
A pull request lands in the review queue with a title like "Add retry logic to webhook delivery" and forty lines of application code. The diff is tidy.
Read More » - Dec- 2025 -24 December
Review Rules for a Founder Working with Contractors
Contractor agreements arrive with more clauses than most founders have patience to read, and the temptation is to skim until the signature line. That skim is where the money leaks out.
Read More » - Dec- 2025 -2 December
How to Split a Review When the Pull Request Is Huge
A pull request with 4,000 changed lines across 37 files is not a review problem. It is a scheduling problem pretending to be a review problem.
Read More » - Dec- 2025 -1 December
How CODEOWNERS Should Decide Who Must Approve
A CODEOWNERS file is a plain text list of path patterns mapped to GitHub teams or usernames.
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