Engineering posts about Developer Experience
Curated summaries and key learnings for engineers working with Developer Experience.
Triage, ship, debug—all from Slack
Duolingo has developed an AI-powered Slack app that integrates with various tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, and AWS to enhance developer productivity and streamline incident management. The app...
Agentic-Agile: Why Agent Development Needs Agile (Not Just Prompts)
The article introduces the concept of Agentic-Agile development, which aims to enhance the collaboration between human developers and AI agents in software projects. It critiques traditional...
WinGet Configuration: Set up your dev machine in one command
The article introduces WinGet Configuration, a tool that allows developers to automate the setup of their development environments using a YAML configuration file. This process simplifies the...
How We Increased Code Coverage by 28% Without Writing a Single Test
In this article, Tom Noah, a Senior Software Engineer at Salesforce, discusses how he increased code coverage by 28% without writing additional tests by restructuring data models. The article...
Introducing Flagship: feature flags built for the age of AI
The article introduces Flagship, a feature flag service tailored for AI-assisted development, allowing autonomous code deployment while maintaining control over feature releases. It highlights the...
Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare
The article outlines the efforts to rebuild the Wrangler CLI for Cloudflare, aiming to unify access to the extensive API surface across various products. It highlights the challenges of ensuring...
Supporting Google Account username change in your app
The article discusses the recent update allowing users to change their Google Account usernames while retaining access to their original email addresses. It highlights the implications for...
Introducing Finish Changes and Outlines, now available in Gemini Code Assist extensions on IntelliJ and VS Code
The article introduces two new features in the Gemini Code Assist extensions for IntelliJ and Visual Studio Code: Finish Changes and Outlines. Finish Changes acts as an AI pair programmer, allowing...
Unleash Your Development Superpowers: Refining the Core Coding Experience
The article outlines recent feature enhancements in the Gemini Code Assist tool, designed to streamline the coding experience for developers. Key features include Agent Mode with Auto Approve for...
Introducing Wednesday Build Hour
The 'Wednesday Build Hour' is a weekly initiative designed for developers to engage in hands-on learning and skill enhancement in cloud technologies. Led by Google Cloud experts, the sessions cover a...
Get started with GitHub Copilot CLI: A free, hands-on course
The article introduces GitHub Copilot CLI, an AI-powered tool that enhances terminal workflows by allowing developers to interact with their code through natural language commands. It outlines a...
Building frontend UIs with Codex and Figma
The article introduces the Figma MCP server, a tool designed to enhance the workflow between design and code generation using Codex. It allows teams to seamlessly transfer design elements from Figma...
Conductor Update: Introducing Automated Reviews
The article introduces the Automated Review feature of Conductor, an extension for the Gemini CLI that enhances the software development lifecycle by integrating a verification step...
WinGet Configuration: Set up your dev machine in one command
The article discusses the use of WinGet Configuration to streamline the setup of development environments on Windows machines. It explains how to create a configuration file in YAML format that can...
Scaling Code Reviews: Adapting to a Surge in AI-Generated Code
The article explores the impact of AI-assisted coding tools on traditional code review processes, highlighting a significant increase in code volume and complexity that outpaces existing review...
From pixels to characters: The engineering behind GitHub Copilot CLI’s animated ASCII banner
The article delves into the complexities of designing an animated ASCII banner for the GitHub Copilot CLI, highlighting the unique challenges posed by terminal environments. It discusses the...
Bringing work context to your code in GitHub Copilot
The article introduces the GitHub Copilot SDK, which allows developers to embed the Copilot agent loop into their applications, enhancing productivity by providing contextual information directly...
High-Availability Feature Flagging at Databricks
The article discusses Databricks' in-house feature flagging platform, SAFE, which decouples code deployment from feature enablement, enhancing the reliability and speed of software rollouts across...
Python Typing Survey 2025: Code Quality and Flexibility As Top Reasons for Typing Adoption
The 2025 Typed Python Survey reveals significant insights into the adoption and perception of Python's type system among developers. With a majority of respondents utilizing type hints regularly, the...
Conductor: Introducing context-driven development for Gemini CLI
The article introduces Conductor, a new extension for the Gemini CLI that facilitates context-driven development by allowing developers to create formal specifications and plans in Markdown files....