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Programming. Vim. React. Guitar. Veganism. Running. Righting wrongs. He/him.
Jun 2, 2018 7 tweets 1 min read
Can we start a trend?

In every code review, make sure to say at least one nice thing about the person's work. People tend to provide almost exclusively criticism, because praise feels awkward to deliver. But it becomes easy with practice! A couple of tips for tricky situations.

Sometimes you can't identify a piece of code that feels worthy of praise. If this happens, compliment the approach, or the effort, or the problem being solved.

"So glad somebody is taking care of this!"