Scott and Wes talk with GitHub’s Sarah Vessels about the ins and outs of code reviews, their critical role in collaborative development, and tips for making your reviews more effective.

Show Notes

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 00:59 What is a code review?
  • How to review code effectively: A GitHub staff engineer’s philosophy

04:18 Strategies for an effective code review processes

06:59 Should you test and fix in the same pull request?

07:57 How to ask for code reviews

12:12 Feature flags and their role in code management

• flipper

scientist

scientist - JS

20:03 Who should do code reviews?

23:34 Should you review your own code?

25:04 Brought to you by Sentry.io

25:29 Code comments vs pull requests

27:35 Dealing with egos in the code review process

30:18 What automations are essential?

• project-pull-mover

34:35 Underutilized tools

• GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Sarah Vessels

36:25 Commit strategies and squash

39:30 GitHub’s branching system

41:14 Git gone wrong

42:30 What is the correct way to merge into main?

43:47 What was it like working on GitHub Sponsors?

• GitHub Sponsors

thanks.dev

46:58 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs

Sick Picks

• Sarah: https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck

Shameless Plugs

• Sarah: https://github.com/sponsors

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