David Trowbridge

Writing on code review, developer tools, and more.

LatestOct 6, 2026·7 min

Tree Sitter in Review Board: Translating Lua Patterns

Part four of a series on integrating Tree Sitter into Review Board: converting Lua patterns to Python regular expressions

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Tree Sitter in Review Board: Applying Highlighting

Part three of a series on integrating Tree Sitter into Review Board: how we actually apply syntax highlighting to code.

treesitterreviewboardsyntax-highlightingdiffsSep 9, 2026·19 min

Tree Sitter in Review Board: Shipping 167 Languages

Part two of a series on how and why we're integrating Tree Sitter into Review Board. How we get all the pieces we need for broad language support.

treesitterreviewboardneovimSep 1, 2026·9 min

Tree Sitter in Review Board: Introduction

Part one of a series on how and why we're integrating Tree Sitter into Review Board.

treesitterreviewboardsyntax-highlightingdiffsAug 25, 2026·5 min

Trying Out Buildkite

The way we ship our software gives most CI tools a headache. Can Buildkite do better?

cipythonjavascriptbuildkiteAug 21, 2026·9 min