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The 3 highest ROI technical skills for software developers

If a skill has a very long lifespan, it’s worth learning, even if it takes a long time to learn.

4 min readOct 31, 2022

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How to metric

This article will teach you how my software engineering teams have learned to cut through the lies and uncover the glorious truth that your…

8 min readDec 20, 2017

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How we do Engineering Peer Feedback at HireVue

I am the engineering director at HireVue. We have a great team of high performing, kind, and smart engineers who want to get better…

6 min readSep 30, 2016

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Developer Conferences Should be Safe for Everyone

I’ve been a volunteer organizer at the annual UtahJS conference for two years. I do this because I love the Utah developer community, and…

5 min readAug 18, 2016

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More than Code

What if I told you that being a great engineer takes a lot more than coding skills? None of the best, most useful, most impactful software…

2 min readAug 2, 2016

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Engineering: Science, Economics, Communication

For a long time I thought of engineering as the intersection of science and economics. To me, it was that special place where that which is…

2 min readMar 28, 2016

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Engineering: Science, Economics, Communication

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Fake Rule Transfer

Sometimes developers mistakenly transfer rules from one domain to another. This is particularly true when learning something new. We bring…

4 min readMar 28, 2016

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Creating Custom Celery Commands

My team has a half dozen Celery servers running in production using RabbitMQ and pre-fork. We recently had a need to run some custom code…

1 min readMar 23, 2016

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A Digital Scrum Master at Work

Are your standups awesome?

Daily standup meeting can really suck. If your standup sucks, there’s a good chance you are doing it wrong. Before throwing out the baby…

5 min readMar 20, 2016

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We’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news

A developer’s guide to interviewing

Alternate title: How to interview a company

17 min readDec 31, 2015

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Dave Smith

Dave Smith

1.91K Followers

CTO at ObservePoint. Formerly software engineer on Amazon Alexa, co-host of the @SoftSkillsEng podcast. Posts are my own, but you can read them if you like.

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