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Creating problems. Sure, I could say that problem solving is my best skill (and it probably is), but the fact is I also create problems by developing tech that then needs to be maintained, fine-tuned, updated, rewritten, replaced, re-thought. There are a few thousand lines of C# and JavaScript processing sales leads for two car-sales companies. I listened, thought, developed but now I'm stuck with a fairly constant regime of maintain, fine-tune, update that I can't get away from. So maybe my best skills as a developer are dogged persistence and faithfulness to the product.
Starts out with "creating problems" and finishes with "dogged persistence". Add "pivoting while marketing self" to your skills list too :P
I feel that though. You create a cool utility or tool and now it's your child.
nice
Whats that old saying, Gotta break a few million itterations to make a program
My ability to relax and stop working
Well, I would often start rocking on the chair relaxing, thinking solutions without putting any pressure or let fear of completing things on time take over. This worked really well in most cases but did disturbed others and few asked what are you so relaxed about? Why are you rocking and spinning on the the chair for?
Honestly, get out doors that's the best way to solve problems, I used to do my best work on the way home
I will try it, I guess other than laziness there's no excuse to just take a short walk. Some problem requires attending to and some are solved in mind, with that distinction I would say I could definitely use going for a short walk for problem solved using mind alone.
You are the real human, peace
And to you Atul
ummm, I like to make responsive designs and till now I have created lots of plan for different software and tools to help our humanity.
Hahahahaha ! The most important thing of all!
I used to want to be the very best frontend developer, like a Pokรฉmon trainer. I had to catch them all, but now I just want to chill and enjoy hobbies, play with my son and be a smarter developer not work harder
that's so important!
Writing documentation is probably the thing that stands out above some of my other skills.
meanwhile, the documentation I write is just ๐คข๐คฎ
I would love to read a blog post by you going over better documentation skills as a new developer! It doesn't get talked about enough and there seems to be no clear cut way of how one should go about writing it. โจ
That's something I hadn't considered, but am now considering.
Perhaps there's something to glean from my posts tagged with documentation? takeonrules.com/tags/documentation/
omgoodness what a collection! Thank you!
Thank you for prompting me.
Not estimating, and ignoring deadlines
Some deadlines go away on thier own and some things cannot be known :) devils advocate here
I think listening and knowing the right questions to ask (so we can get to a better problem definition) is probably my super power. I would probably add documentation/blogging and simplifying the complex as probably other things I think I am pretty good at.
I think depending on the situation and opportunity at hand, my best skills are: Solving problems from scratch, i.e. greenfield projects.
But then at the other end of the spectrum, I fancy myself a really good debugger.
I'd love to see a post from you about your top considerations for greenfield projects!
Abstracting complex things and explaining it the easy way.
Also adapting to change and new technologies I guess.
My best skill would be to break down hard-to-understand technical concepts in a way that makes sense for junior developers & even non-tech folks.
Probably the reason why I could transition from a pure software engineering role to DevRel! ๐
Understanding Dinosaurs and combing spaghetti. My life since 2019.
Wow. Such nice way of describing it. Love that.
Empathy.
This. 100%.
I was looking for this exact comment, and thought I'd have to make it. I'm pleasantly surprised!
Self-learning and self-seeking
This skill helped me a lot with fear. I don't mind getting down and dirty with new codebases because I just know that whatever happens, I'll always be able to find the answers I need even if it takes a bit of time.
Forget about algorithms and data structures for one. I've been a software developer for 20+ years professionally, and I started coding when I was 9, implying I've got 39 years of software development experience in total - And the last time I needed "an algorithm" was in 2001 (partially a joke, but still seriously intended).
For instance, who cares about how to implement QuickSort, I've got
List<t>.Sort, and why bother about binary tree structures when 99% of your work persists data in PostgreSQL (or something) ...?Sure, understanding the theory behind algorithms and data structures is important, but vanishingly less and less important due to better abstractions, the same way most developers hardly know any CISC x86 assembly code these days.
My most valuable skill as a developer is composition, architecture and design. It's what makes my code readable, both by others, and by my self (6 months down the road). If you want to sum it up in one word, I'd choose "beauty" ...
Resourcefulness, Quick Learning & Catching on to new code base quickly by fearless experimentation, let the git worry about things unrelated.
No harm will come as long as I dont create a
exprimentationbranch and start creating PR from that to be merged to dev, because then I would be in trouble.the ability of Zooming In and Out, meaning:
and while zooming in and out, be creative and bold and challenge the status quo, pointing out flaws and suggesting solutions or improvements
too often we put ourselves in a cage and implement crazy complicated solutions only because we did not ask the developer close to us (working on same feature but different subtask) to change the return value of the method they are implementing...
I think adapatability.
I started my professional career doing .NET in financial services, now I'm writing realtime OS code for medical devices, and I've done a bunch of stuff in between. I'll pick up whatever and run with it.