The Author's Craft: Making Code Easy to Review
Half of review quality is decided before the reviewer ever opens the diff — by the author. Small focused PRs, a description that states what and why, a self-review pass, and clean commits are how you optimize the one resource a review really spends: the reviewer's attention.
Half of review quality is set before the reviewer arrives: small focused PRs, splitting big changes, great descriptions (what/why/how-to-test), self-review first, and keeping refactor noise out of behavior changes.