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Notes on review,
tests and shipping.

Written by the people who build Firstpass. Sample articles: replace them with your own.

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Engineering

9 min

What we learned from 1.2 million review comments

Which comments lead to a code change, which get dismissed, and what that told us to stop saying.

Priya Nand

Product

Why a reviewer should run the tests

6 min

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Engineering

The cost of a nine-hour review wait

7 min

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Product

Writing team rules a machine can apply

5 min

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Company

How we delete your code

4 min

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Product

Firstpass 3.6: first review in 94 seconds

3 min

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Open a pull request.

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Install on GitHub

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Open a pull request.

Get your

first pass.

Install on GitHub

Book a demo

Free for public repositories · 14-day trial for private ones · no card

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