Think Fast, Ship Fast: 8 techniques to ship code faster on a new codebase

[binarygit]

Ever anxious when working on a new codebase. Always second guessing when faced with a new feature request. Here’s a list of techniques and tools that will help you draft airtight PR’s in fractions of time and give you tools to navigate new codebases and feature requests with greater ease.

Abstract

Every time you join a new company or plan to contribute to Open Source Software or have to draft a new PR, you might feel doubtful about your abilities to do great work and produce perfect features. You might question where and how to start and how to move forward when you get stuck. This is a list of tools and techniques that help you think and help you ship faster. If you incorporate any of these tools and techniques in your current workflow you’ll find yourself happier and make your bosses happy too.

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Bio / About the author

I'm Avi and I am the author of show-job. I work currently for commish and love writing code in ruby.

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[zoras]

Thanks for the initiative @binarygit. I can imagine this to be a good talk. Are you ready with the slides?

[binarygit]

I’m almost done with the slides @zoras dai