Extensions can make our life as a developer a little easier. Whether they are Visual Studio Code or browser extensions, they can help you manage your tasks, optimize your workflow, or improve your efficiency. Sometimes, an extension can aid you visually, such as JSON Formatter.
This article shows you different…
Four causes and the possible solutions
Context switching prevents developers from finishing tasks quickly and getting into deep work. Let’s look at how to avoid constant context switching to improve your productivity.
Context switching is the act of working on several tasks in parallel. …
Maintaining a healthy codebase is extremely important for any team that wants to ship quality products at a high pace.
If you want to improve your codebase health and look for the right tooling, this article will give you some ideas on where to start.
Automatic scans vs User reporting
Let’s first look at the…
Project management tools make planning more effective, leading to a more successful sprint. Let’s look at 5 nonobvious tools your team might consider adopting.
How to choose the right tool
There’s plenty of sprint planning tools on the market, and many offer similar features, which make it confusing to decide what to choose. …
My team at Stepsize has surveyed 200+ Engineers and published the State of Technical Debt 2021 Report that explores the impact of tech debt on developer morale, velocity, and customer experience.
In this article, I’ll share some of the key learnings from the report about what Engineers really think about…
There are plenty of posts that tell you that sprint planning should include things like shaking hands, making pledges, and a team song (I wish I were joking). This is not one of them. Nor am I advocating for you to buy into any particular school of thought (i.e. …
If you’re looking at ways to clean up our code, reduce complexity and improve functionality — these refactoring extensions will help you move faster.
JavaScript Booster is a code refactoring tool that features several coding actions such as converting var to const or let, removing redundant else…
Let’s take a look at when you should consider refactoring your codebase and how to convince your management to spend time on refactoring and technical debt.
As you push forward to create and ship the next big thing to market, you’ve probably let some things slide that just might now…
Many of you loved my list with the 10 Must-Have VS Code Extensions to boost developer productivity so I asked devs who use IntelliJ IDEA: what are your favorite plugins to ship quality code fast? Here are 10 plugins many of you have mentioned:
1. WakaTime
WakaTime allows you to see metrics…
As a developer, you need to organise your tasks to manage your time and successfully complete a sprint. These 6 VS Code extensions help devs get organised and work effectively.
1. TODO Highlight
If you like to mark sections of code with TODO and FIXME tags but keep forgetting about them then this…
