Adrienne Braganza Tacke

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Author of LGTM: Constructive Code Reviews📘manning.com/books/looks-good-to-me • LinkedIn [In]structor ☁️ • Always down for 🍰 • Speaking all ova tha worllld 🎤

Change my mind meme, in pixel person style. Adrienne will be signing and giving away copies of LGTM at All Things Open conference on October 13 at 3:30pm ET
Pixel person-styled dog is burning meme
Welcome letter, some tea bags, and an assortment of candy on a table.
Sad Pablo Meme, redone in pixel person form. Pixel person waiting for a while.
Two pixel people having a friendly conversation
Pixel person version of LGTM cover figure. Comically accurate and on brand.
Japanese book cover of "Looks Good To Me".
Speaker promo card that says "I am speaking at Infobip Shift", with Adrienne's photo and name in the frame.
A Miffy plushie is placed closer to and farther away from an ultrasonic sensor as it gets closer, an LED on a connected breadboard and Raspberry Pi lights up red. As the plushie moves away, the LED lights up green.
A 5-star Amazon review of Adrienne's book from B. Rader: Who would've thought that a book on code reviews could be engaging? Good communication is one of the key skills for good code reviews, so maybe I shouldn't be surprised. This book is a great introduction to code reviews, even for those who think they know how code reviews should be done. Many developers (if not most) have been in code reviews that have benefitted them but still walked away with annoyances about how the process works. One of the key takeaways of this book for me is that each person (not just the reviewer) can take steps to make code reviews more efficient, more likely to unearth bugs or meaningful improvements, and also make the experience less socially awkward. The book takes a balanced approach toward code reviews, recognizing that not all teams are the same size or have the same dynamics. While it focuses on the pull-request method of doing code reviews, it does encourage in-person code reviews when needed with the PR method being a kind of gateway to discovering when this is needed. The author recognizes that not every suggestion is going to be helpful or work for every team but most of the suggestions have made me think about my team's code review process in a more critical way. I am still in process of reading this book, but so far the suggestions have been great. The foundation in the early chapters is very good and I anticipate the rest will be the same.
Adrienne leaning against a tower of her own books.
Book cover for Looks Good To Me: Constructive code reviews by Adrienne Braganza. Foreword by Scott Hanselman
Banana bread just out of the oven.