michaelnovati
Joined 17 years ago
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Member since
Dec 1
Recent submissions
Comment · 6 months ago
A lesson when SEO folks manufacture viral content for clicks but masquerade it as the truth. Full of mistakes, misattributions, incorrect timelines, and leaving out lawsuits and nefarious activity that disputes the story.
Comment · 6 months ago
Cool!!
Comment · 9 months ago
Confirmed by Mission Local: https://x.com/jrivanob/status/2018139137300373609
Comment · 1 year ago
They keep their staff list up to date on their website fairly frequently. I'm going off that.
Comment · 1 year ago
I have a lot of DMs that are there to protect me in making arguments. I don't think it's cool to share them - even anonymized, because people close to Codesmith leadership would be outed and it would impact a lot of people. I have to think about the right way to do that if I did and I might need to have a journalist with credibility go through and write it up.
Comment · 1 year ago
I comment a lot about them and I have gotten annoyed every now and then when my tone was not professional, but most of critical comments about Codesmith center on The fact that their website has a giant banner saying from zero to mid-level engineer and I think that that's misleading and setting people up for failure in the software industry regardless of their outcomes or their talent. I'm open to hearing all sides of this, but it's a very reasonable opinion to have and state.
Comment · 1 year ago
FWIW those posts that show up in search are not my posts and I don't have control over that.
I don't "post" that much about Codesmith. I comment a lot about them.
Comment · 1 year ago
This: https://web.archive.org/web/20240418095904/https://www.codes...
I paused my recommendation to wait to see if they did what they said they would do. In my opinion they did not, so I then removed my recommendation.