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Eddie Jaoude Demoing the GitHub Social Circle

In this quick video post, EddieHub Founder Eddie Jaoude shows how his community uses the GitHub Social Circle.

Published In Stack Overflow: Introducing the Developer Skill Matrix

Spoken languages have distinct levels to measure skills; why shouldn't programming languages, too?

Kunal Kushwaha Demoing the GitHub Social Circle

In this short video, Community Classroom Founder Kunal Kushwaha shows off the benefits of the GitHub Social Circle.

Code is a craft, not a competition – and why it matters.

Sema CEO Matt Van Itallie recently wrote a new article for "This is Learning".

Implementing code review best practices

In this talk between our CEO Matt Van Itallie and Codementor, we will go through not only effective code review practices but also how an organization can support code reviews.

How to review a GitHub Pull Request

In this 12 minute video, Open Source Maintainer Eddie Jaoude, founder of EddieHub, the inclusive Open Source community, demonstrates how to create and review Pull Requests, and how their community uses Sema to mentor their members.

Coding Guide Spotlight: Terraform Best Practices

In this occasional series, Sema highlights strong coding practices created by practitioners– style guides, best practices, and advice on algorithms and data structures.

Finding a remote job from the Open Source Community

Matt Van Itallie chats with Eddie Jaoude about how Open Source can accelerate your career in particular remote work.

How to Improve Social Media and Community Practices

10 tips from a Masterclass with Kunal Kushwaha

Coding Guide Spotlight: Rego Style Guide

In this occasional series, Sema highlights strong coding practices created by practitioners– style guides, best practices, and advice on algorithms and data structures.

How to explain the benefits of code reviews to non-technical people?

Here’s how to make the case to a non-technical sales leader, CFO, or CEO why code reviews are essential. 

Tips for Code Authors for Better Code Reviews

Code Authors play an essential role in ensuring effective code reviews. Here are four tips on how they can get the most out of code reviews.

How to Set Up a Team's Systems and Culture for Strong Code Reviews

Five tips for setting up a team's culture and systems for strong code reviews.

The Craft of Coding and Code Metrics for Open Source

Sema CEO Matt Van Itallie recently joined the CHAOSS community podcast with Georg Link, PhD and Sean Goggins to talk about Open Source.

Communication Best Practices - Giving and Receiving Feedback

In this episode of the Open Source Cafe, Community Classroom’s Kunal Kushwala interviews Sema’s Matt Van Itallie who shares his thoughts about communication best practices.

15 Steps to using Open Source to Advance your Career as an Early Tenure Developer

You've heard that Open Source can advance your tech career. But how, exactly, do you get started? This 15 step checklist can help.

Working with Developer Freelancers, Contractors, and Consultants

Freelancers, Contractors and Consultants are an increasing component of organizations' engineering teams – in some situations, they are the entire engineering team. Follow this guide to help pick the right partner, integrate them with employees, and deliver top engineering results.

How to Build an Accomplishment Journal / Brag Book

Being able to reflect on and then explain what you have learned and what you have achieved at work or in school can be as important for career advancement and personal growth as carrying out the work itself– sometimes, even more than the work. An Accomplishment Journal or Brag Book can help.

What do Open Source Maintainers want you to know about contributing to Open Source projects?

Here are seven tips from EddieHub Maintainers and Community members on how to be an effective Contributor to Open Source.

Seven ways to be an effective Open Source Maintainer

Open Source Maintainers from EddieHub, the inclusive Open Source community, shared seven tips on being a great Open Source Maintainer, in an Twitter space earlier this year.

Basics of Open Source

Open Source code is code that is accessible to everyone, and (almost always) is created and maintained at least in part by members of the public.

Benefits to Students of Open Source

This is an extract of a conversation between Sema Founder & CEO Matt Van Itallie and Community Classrooms Founder Kunal Kushwala about how working with Open Source projects can advance one’s career.

The 5 Golden Rules of Code Reviews

Whether you are code reviewing at work, on an Open Source project, or in a university classroom, these five tips will help you, help the code Author, and help the code.

Learning in Public for Career Advancement

In this episode of the Open Source Cafe, Matt Van Itallie from Sema shares some of his insights about getting hired, communication best practices and how you can utilise learning in public for career advancement.

An Introduction to Open Source Program Offices (OSPO): a Community Conversion

Earlier this Spring, Rizèl Scarlett, Developer Advocate at GitHub, brought together experts in Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) to explain the what, the why, and the how of OSPOs.

Using Open Source for Career Advancement

Earlier this Spring, Community Classrooms Founder Kunal Kushwala spoke with Sema Founder and CEO Matt Van Itallie about how working with Open Source projects can advance one’s career.

Learning with the EddieHub Community

Mentoring and Supporting in Tech, and Contributing to Open Source

How a code quality company dealt with a code quality issue

One of our heroes, Eddie Jaoude, asked us to give a behind-the-scenes tour of how we handled a recent user-identified bug.

Code Reviews 101 - The Basics

Code improves with multiple reviews and revisions, and this process isn’t something that can be done alone. Spotting errors in code design is difficult at the best of times — and the closer you are to the work, the harder it can be to critique. That’s where code reviews come in.

Five Sema Use Cases

Dev teams, students, open source maintainers, new hires, contractors and many others benefit from our free Chrome extension. Dive into the different use cases Sema helps supercharge the coding process.

Developer Portfolio

At Sema we believe in celebrating your achievements and, of course, who knows those achievements better than you. Now you can showcase your work directly from the project or repo itself, in a beautifully readable way.

Introducing Teams

With Teams, users will be able to create multiple teams, add the same repos to different teams, and add people to more than one team. This feature, along with all of our features, is free.

Sneak Peak at Teams

Share and use common coding practices, find examples of great code, teach and learn from other coders at school or across a large team

Managing Collections and Snippets

Coding best practices at your fingertips during code reviews

Snip Snip Hooray!

Snip Snip Hooray! - Introducing “Snippets": pre-written content that can be inserted into your comments based on thinking and advice from the world’s best sources

Introducing Personal Insights

See data on your coding performance and growth

Reuse Your Favorite Code Review Comments

Reuse Your Favorite Code Review Comments: Adding Your Own Suggested Comments

Introducing Go / Golang Suggested Comments

We’ve shipped over 125 stories since our last update based on your suggestions. Keep your feedback coming…

Emerging Growth Podcast: Technical Due Diligence

Sema CEO and Founder Matt Van Itallie joined Alex Shtarkman of Revolution Ventures and Aronson’s Kyle McQuighan to discuss technical due diligence on the Emerging Growth Podcast.

Lessons from Week 1, Introducing Community Engineering Guides

I want to share with you a new feature that we released, and how users have been using the product in its first week.

Introducing Release 1.0

A better Suggested Comment experience; Comment Exploration + Languages; Code Review Stats on the new Repo Dashboard

Future of Technology M&A Series

This interview is one in an occasional series of conversations with thought leaders in technology Mergers and Acquisitions. In this interview, Sema’s CEO Matt Van Itallie spoke with Oliver Vivell, Vice President of Corporate Development at SAP.