Whether it is a specific enough technical expertise, or just part of the craft you do well?
Whether it is a specific enough technical expertise, or just part of the craft you do well?
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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.
Hahahahaha ! The most important thing of all!
I used to want to be the very best frontend developer, like a Pokémon 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
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.
Writing documentation is probably the thing that stands out above some of my other skills.
meanwhile, the documentation I write is just 🤢🤮
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. ✨
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.
Understanding Dinosaurs and combing spaghetti. My life since 2019.
Wow. Such nice way of describing it. Love that.
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! 😎
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" ...
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.
Skill? Creativity. Whether working on an original program. (And, we all know that coding a new program is often a thing of art. : )
Or troubleshooting and updating an existing program that's out there by another coder.
It comes down to creativity. Ability to think out of the box. Be flexible. This leads me back to keeping a creative mindset to be successful.
Communication and analysis - don't jump into coding right away, understand the problem first, ask questions!
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.
Communication.
Understanding that the same word, in the same context, but used by a different person, can mean completely different things.
Understanding that I may not understand the full context of a technical tool or a person's perspective, and knowing what questions to ask to get there (sometimes that very question is, "What are the best questions to ask?").
Understanding that sometimes concepts are not complex, they're just hidden behind a bunch of domain-specific vocabulary. More than that, I make these kinds of concepts more accessible to others.
This is how I got into tech without a CS degree, and this is how I'll stay in it.
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'm RPA developer, using Python as a standart language. I build automation and innovation for a enterprise where I work, using various librarys/frameworks in Python: Sellenium, Pandas, Mathplotlib, Tabula, etc. I make improvements in the company's internal processes, makes the boss much richer hahahaha :')
Not a hard skill, but I feel like I'm good at over-communicating with my team. It's about consistency.
Critical thinking, lean coding
Intuitive problem solving. Makes it harder to explain how I arrive at a solution, but is otherwise a helpful skill.
Analogizing technical topics. Besides creating a common ground for everyone in the room, it's occasionally fun and colorful to talk about how Kirk delivers mail to Carol's army of clones (aka Kafka and consumer groups).
Awesome comment. Couldn't agree more.
I'm kinda passable at creating solutions, but once I have them, I'm really good at making up a corresponding problem.
Jokes aside, I'd say I'm kind of okay-ish at building abstractions with heavy metaprogramming.
Being goot at math.
I actually graduated in Mathematics and became a developer by chance. But when it comes to those seldom problems that deal with abstraction, generalization, visualization and figuring out how things work from a bunch of data I feel like I have an edge over my colleagues.
It's not something that's always necessary, but it's good to have in a team, and I think it helped me improving some other developer skills.
I don't have one yet. I even started out way back 2015 and it seems like I always lost myself all the time. It's also way harder to keep being updated with the latest techs especially living in a remote place where internet connection is a pain in the ass.
I just take a solid responsibility what I am going to create for example if the issue I am going to implement requires some expertise I will push towards to obtain general knowledge and during that time I will basically forgot everything else on my life.
This actually can give positive effects on my development because stress is actually helps you to obtain that goal but on the other side it can also effect me psychologically since I can forgot taking care of myself or others in my family.
Thats my sickness I guess.
I would say my visualization skills. Solving problems is always a visual process and I can quickly find analogies in the real world and extract patterns for a solution there. It may be a naive or inefficient one, but I read a lot and I have a lot of schemas to rely on so I can optimize it.
Thank you for sharing. I can relate because I've seen people in your situation and also found myself in similar situations. Now looking at the silver lining you quickly landed another job so its all great.
Mine is some combination of "Is willing to poke at things he doesn't know about until he fixes them" and "has a lot of empathy for users".
TBH I think I'm better at the former, but I think the latter is more important. Having user empathy helps guide you in making decisions, it helps make boring bits more engaging, and it makes it so much better when you fix a bug and a user is happy about it.
Over the last couple of years it's become clear to me that most problems in dev come not from bugs in code, but from flawed/missing conceptualisation of business/problem.
As such, I've focused hard on studying software architecture and understanding business. My go-to tools these days are Domain-Driven Design (DDD) - Event Storming being a powertool for mapping out the Domain, and Clean Architecture to tame the popular abuses of frameworks such as Rails.
Responsive website design
This should be part of a "Top 7 Comments of the Week" list 🤝
Knowing when to ask for help and not feeling nervous to do so.
I ask questions, a lot of questions
Beautifying and organizing code and documentation are my favorite sub-task in developing!
Debugging, fixing, and optimizing existing code.
I am far, far better at finding and fixing the bug, optimizing a nonperformant application or piece of one, or tackling a pile of tangled code spaghetti and turning it into a saucy code tapestry than I am at building even the simplest of applications in the greenfield and from scratch.
Perseverance 🚀
Problem solving skills and logic mainly creative mind
The ability to think about the end user and my team before speaking or taking action. "Walk a mile in there shoes then walk one back to create the best user experience."
not sure that's really a skill but I'm perfectly honest when I don't know smth or when the solution is unclear at some point.
Probably reading and understanding logs and tracebacks.
Bugs
Not sure if it is a skill but I'm just not attached to any way of doing something at all...
Asking the right questions.
Learning fast as soft skill and Typescript
To make my way rather than to find one when attempting to solve a problem
Thinking and write thought as fluent as code.
Pretend to be a non-technical user and see the product from his point of view
Listening and then asking questions to find out what clients / people actually want.
Or just place code that spies them and tell you what client wants.
Being calm in high pressure situations ✌️
Althrought I'm not as good as I think
Yup, I aggree did experince something similar and I did not take it, not well atleast. LOL. Wanna share a few experinces... don't need to go into details.
Go Anjan!
omgoodness what a collection! Thank you!
debug and find the problems about a bug
Reading Articles
Definitely persistence
Messing up others' work and come up with a better one, sometimes got back a slap. 😂
Creativity, I've been told I can be really creative, and I sort of agree, any time I'm just sitting down, I'll be thinking of crazy new ideas that I could make real.
Code reviews, Help others and ask questions 😂
I am in best of my learning skill
Sub- tasking.. I always try to focus on how to reduce a task to about a unit time...
My love for learning! In development there is always something new to keep am eye on or to better yourself somehow!
Problem solving. I really like to work on complex/challenging problems.
Sharing whatever cool thing I learn with the team
👍👍👍
I would say I'm good at problem solving as well, specially when it's directly related to user interface. My strng UX and UI skills contributed a lot for my carreer as front-end developer.
Communication
Solve problems, I dont know how explain, but I have creative ideas to solve problems haha (sometimes a kludge '-' )
Debugging
Collaborating with different kinds of developers, we're in the people business where our main tool is technology, not the way around :)
Problem solving is the biggest one.
Guess having learnt how to learn.
Uh, no, it's having learnt how to say "no"
I think Watching Tutorial :D .Just kidding-
Creating more problems instead of fixing them
Finding information really fast, but carefully filtered.
Improvisation