A bit of inspiration for building YOUR Platform.

How can we be more consistent?

Cliff Brake October 09, 2024 #consistency

What does not work very well is long standards and endless code reviews where we shame people into compliance. There are better ways.

We now have tools that can proactively format our code. We have linting tools that check things. Use them. Even if no one else reads our code, they help us.

Write tests. Perhaps their greatest value is that they give us a new perspective on our work, which leads to consistency.

We can have CI hooks that check for various things -- check out the Zephyr project if you want a good example of this.

Being nudged by a CI tool to be consistent is a much better experience than being pulled over by the consistency police.

Does YOUR Platform have tooling that encourages consistency?