Fun little quadrant of my pinned GitHub projects.

Two initial projects — @psalm (written for PHP) and hack-sql-fake (written for Hack by Scott Sandler) — translated into two new tools: Hakana (Psalm rewritten for Hack) and php-mysql-engine (hack-sql-fake rewritten for PHP).

I speak from experience when I say this is absolute nonsense.

Code reviews don't need to come from managers — they can come from your peers, and also more junior engineers (since learning to review a PR is itself a skill).

When the manager is themselves writing code, it can actually make things worse for the engineering org — can those beneath them effectively review those PRs? In a utopian workplace everyone can speak up and say "that code looks bad", but in reality that doesn't happen.