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How to improve code quality with Claude Code

The best way to improve code quality is to do two things: plan the solution before development and run code reviews regularly.Continue reading on UX Planet »

Unit Tests: Keep Your CRAP Score from Wrecking the Show

Code Quality Had 5 Pillars. AI Broke 3 and Created 2 We Can’t Measure

If you've been writing production software for more than a few years, you grew up with a gut sense of what "good code" meant beyond "it works." You could look at a pull request and...

200 Lines in CLAUDE.md Dropped My Code Quality to 79% — Splitting into 3 Files Got It to 96.9%

More rules should mean better output. That's the intuition. I spent weeks building a comprehensive CLAUDE.md — 200 lines covering naming conventions, security rules, error handlin...

linecounter: a fast quality read for a Ruby repo

Originally appeared on Blog.I wanted a fast way to read the quality of a Ruby repository, so I wrote a small gem called linecounter. Why bother Most files should not be too long,...

Экстремально чистый код

Старый код редко лежит бесплатно. Даже если его никто не вызывает, он попадает в поиск, ревью, CI, локальный запуск и голову каждому новому разработчику. Разбираю на примерах: DTO,...

Code That Lasts: Mastering Software Design Principles (with Golang)

Have you ever looked at code you wrote six months ago and thought: "Who wrote this monster?"? Relax, it happens to all of us. In software engineering, writing code that a machine...

AI Code Quality: The Junior Engineer Equilibrium (Igor Kostyuchenok)

What the Data Actually Shows About AI-Assisted Coding The software industry has embraced AI codin

The Dark Side of Clean Code: When SOLID and DRY principles actively hurt you

When SOLID and DRY principles stop protecting your codebase and start actively harming it — and the well-evidenced case that orthodox clean-code doctrine has gone too far. here is...

Clean Code: Package Architecture, Dependency Flow, and Scalability, Part 4

Why Import Cycles Hurt I've spent countless hours helping teams untangle circular dependencies in their Go projects. "Can't load package: import cycle not allowed" — if you've seen...

Maintainability sensors for coding agents

In her recent article about harness engineering for coding agent users, Birgitta Böckeler laid out a mental model for expanding a coding agent harness: a system of guid...

Передаем код правильно

Чек-лист для фиксации программного обеспечения. Внедрите эту практику в своем стартапе или студии:В договоре: Пропишите, что результатом является исходный код в системе контроля ве...

Detecting Bugs and Vulnerabilities in Java With SonarQube

The security audit report landed unexpectedly. It highlighted a critical vulnerability in our payment processing module. We had passed all unit tests. We had passed all integration...

Review the Logic, Not Whether the Junior Used AI

Code review has a new lazy question: "Did AI write this?" Sometimes that question matters. If private code was pasted into an unapproved tool, it matters. If generated code w...

Most Test Cases Are a Waste of Time, But Here’s What Good Testers Do Instead

Why more testing does not mean better quality, and what actually does There’s a quiet assumption in many software teams: The more test cases we have, the better our quality must...

Clean Code: Structs, Methods, and Composition Over Inheritance, Part 2

Introduction: Why OOP in Go Isn't What You Think I've seen hundreds of developers try to write Go like Java, creating inheritance hierarchies that don't exist and fighting the lang...

Как мы строим внутренний контроль качества в компании по тестированию

В нашей компании по тестированию ПО на аутсорсе мы постоянно сталкиваемся с тем, что формат сотрудничества диктует инфраструктура заказчика. На одном проекте нас ждет построенная п...

Checklist for Creating Effective Claude Code Skills

20 rules to follow when crafting Claude SkillContinue reading on UX Planet В»

Ревью вайб-кода с гнильцой, который притворяется оптимизированным С++ кодом

Ценность квалифицированного программиста смещается в сторону умения проводить обзоры кода. Генерировать код становится проще, но всё так же важно проверять его с точки зрения качес...

The Test Manager’s Guide: From Chaos to Predictable Quality — Part 3: Transition KPIs — Measuring Structural Health

Between Strategy and Stability In Part 1, we diagnosed the chaos. In Part 2, we installed an MVP strategy to create traction. Now comes the dangerous phase. Early wins create c...

On .NET Live: How Coding Standards Supercharge .NET Quality & Performance

For the second time, I’m excited to be a guest on On .NET Live on May 18th at 9 AM PST! I’ll be talking about one of my favorite subjects: coding standards and how they can superch...

RAG Series (24): Code RAG — Teaching AI to Understand Your Codebase

The Difference Between Code and Documents Split a Python file into 1000-character chunks with RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter, embed them, run vector search — this is the most c...

Mutation Testing With PIT in Java: The Coverage Metric You’re Ignoring That Actually Measures Test Quality

Line coverage tells you which code ran. Mutation testing tells you whether your tests would actually catch a bug. Here is how to close that gap with PITest — the fastest mutation t...

Claude’s Code Quality Conundrum Continues

Anthropic admits to a month-long degradation in Claude's output due to reasoning "effort" tradeoffs, cache bugs, and verbosity prompts. As Opus 4.7 rolls out with mixed developer r...