Limehome Blog

As engineers, the quality of the codebase is one of our core responsibilities. Code reviews are the final line of defense before code enters a codebase. Once code is in place, it becomes a challenge to address issues that do not break core functionality. At limehome we are a fully-remote agile team, we want to take advantage of what code reviews have to offer.

It can be tempting to fill your sprints and your roadmap to the brim with work. Ironically this actually tends to cause delays and missed deliveries - a better way is to instead think about your capacity and (productive) slack time.

In the tech world we’re often privileged to be able to create our own solutions to problems that we have. However this may not always be the right approach - often our problems are less unique than we think and could be solved with existing industry solutions. How do we know which approach is the right approach?

Tech can be overly serious at times, and lacking in cats! Luckily there are a lot of different opportunities to bring more cats into your engineering ecosystem. Everything from error codes to neural networks can be enhanced with a few choice cat pictures.

We want limehome to be a place for people to feel welcomed and included. Language is often just a habit that we don’t think too much about, so we make a conscious effort to make sure that we use inclusive language everywhere - inside our teams, generally in our meetings and even in the documentation we write. For this we’ve created an inclusive language guide.

It’s difficult to find the sweet spot between understanding enough of a problem without taking investigation too far, that lets you seize the opportunity to get started. One way to think of this is as a graph over time, with different points yielding different results.

Sometimes learnings come from unusual places, and even as developers sometimes what happens outside of work can give us insights into how to be better engineers. The following is a bit of a comedy of errors tale about the dangers of overconfidence and learning the lessons.