Amro's Blog

Last Friday I had a shower thought about evals.

For a while I thought I’d lost my creativity.

Navigating your engineering career can be difficult, and one thing that can be especially frustrating is working toward promotion.

Many tech companies are conducting layoffs thanks to economic conditions and over hiring.

The best teams I’ve been on have displayed high levels of ownership.

Amro’s desk I shared a Tweet with a photo of my current work setup and a few folks asked what I use so I thought I’d put together a blog post with all the hardware on my desk.

Code review is great way to maintain and improve your team’s codebase, and like a lot of team process having an intentional, positive culture around it makes it better.

Early in my career I thought showing my worth on a team meant having my ideas win.

Earlier this year I was asked if some engineers from our team could help build a newly prioritized project.

Some time back my team was asked to take up a critical project on short notice.

The other day I was chatting with a friend who is both very competent and early in their software engineering career.

People have different value systems.

Note: I wrote the following note over a year ago, but only recently decided to send it to my newsletter.

Did you know the swift-llbuild project contains a debugging tool called llbuild-ui that can find dependency cycles in your iOS build?

Xcode 9 includes a new build system that can substantially improve build times.

I’ve spent a bit of time with notification extensions in iOS 10 and they’re pretty great.

I’m republishing this article here so I can reference it later.