Rachel GrantOur Flaky Test Was Actually a Daylight Saving Time Bug Hiding for Three Years
It failed twice a year, always on a Monday, and we kept clicking re-run.
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Matteo RossiStop Writing Clever Retry Loops: Backoff, Jitter and Knowing When to Quit
Most retry code I review makes outages worse. Here is the small, dull version that actually helps.
Matteo RossiSeven Code Review Comments I No Longer Leave
After six years and roughly 4,000 reviews, I quietly retired some of my favourite nitpicks. Here is the list and the reasons.
Rachel GrantI Write the README Before I Write a Single Line of Code
It is the cheapest design review I know, and it has killed three of my own bad ideas.
Krzysztof NowakPostgres Advisory Locks Quietly Fixed Our Double-Running Cron Jobs
Two servers, one nightly job, and invoices that went out twice. The fix was eleven lines.
Matteo RossiThe Spreadsheet Had 14 Date Formats. Here's How I Tamed Them
A practical, slightly embarrassing walk through cleaning real-world dates with pandas, and the rules I now follow on every import.
Matteo RossiThe Day I Deleted a 70KB Date Library and Nobody Noticed
The browser already ships a world-class date formatter. I just never bothered to look.
Matteo RossiEvent Delegation Isn't Old-Fashioned. It's Just Underrated
One listener on a parent can replace hundreds on children, and the browser has made it nicer than ever.
Krzysztof NowakI Kept a Bug Journal for 200 Days. My Bugs Were Not What I Expected
I thought I was bad at concurrency. It turns out I am bad at reading error messages to the end.
Rachel GrantI Deleted 4,000 Lines of Our Codebase and the Test Suite Got Twice as Fast
Nobody asked me to remove the dead code, which is exactly why it had been sitting there for six years.
