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Testing, clean code, version control and the habits that keep a codebase healthy as a team grows.

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Git from a Veteran Developer: Mental Models, Battle Scars, and Habits That Saved My Work post featured image

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Git from a Veteran Developer: Mental Models, Battle Scars, and Habits That Saved My Work

Git is not a bag of incantations to memorize for an interview. When I realized Git stores snapshots of files rather than diffs, my fear disappeared. Here are the practical lessons from ten years of botched rebases, atomic commits, and rescuing vanished code.

Test-Driven Development When It Actually Pays Off: Writing Testable Code Without the Dogma post featured image

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Test-Driven Development When It Actually Pays Off: Writing Testable Code Without the Dogma

Learn when TDD speeds you up versus when it slows you down, and how the three-layer rule keeps tests fast and useful in real projects.

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A Git Branching and Code Review Workflow That Scales Past Five Developers

Branching strategy is not the bottleneck, review quality is. Short-lived branches, atomic commits, protected main and automated checks take a five person team to twenty without the arguments.