12 hours ago
Missed One
1 week ago
Complacency is a Pain to Clean Up
2 weeks ago
Focus on One Thing
2 weeks ago
Everything Takes Effort
2 weeks ago
Default to Team Patterns
2 weeks ago
Too Many Tabs
2 weeks ago
The Easy Metric
2 weeks ago
Your Best Work
2 weeks ago
Back to the Terminal
3 weeks ago
We will always have Regex
12 hours ago
The schedule broke last week, and many routines broke (something AI cannot fix unless you want it to look at my past writings and write something). But now the schedule has been fixed, and we’re back. And by schedule, I mean me. I didn’t write anything, had a number of other items to work on, and that was the week. Now it’s time to reset and revisit. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.
1 week ago
Complacency is a Pain to Clean Up
Greg Thomas
For the past few years, I’ve waged a war with mice at our cabin, essentially trying to keep them out of our crawlspace storage area. It’s not a perfect setup, but it’s necessary, and for a few years, I thought I was winning the war – they were staying away, never coming back. But this year, they all ganged up on me, and they launched a counteroffensive (or at least I like to imagine they all had a huddle and got together to come at me). And did they ever, laying waste to everything in our storage area (emphasis on …
2 weeks ago
Focus on One Thing
Greg Thomas
Pick one thing, work on it. Then the next. Focus breeds success. Read one book. Draw one picture. Learn one riff. Release one app. Focus and then move onto next. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.
3 weeks ago
We will always have Regex
In all our agents, in all our copilots, in all our fancy code. We will always have Regex. I still need help with Regex and using tools to help me find the most effective expression. Twenty years ago, when I was starting out, if you had of told me that Regex would be the one constant between now and then, I’m not sure I would have believed you. But there it is… Regex Never Dies. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the …
3 weeks ago
Pick Your Path
I just watched a quick synopsis of Microsoft Build this week. I was never big on conferences. I liked attending them with coworkers, hanging out in the evenings, talking about what we learned that day, and also seeing how much swag we could bring home. That was our goal – the swag, and how much per-diem we could save to go out at night. Conferences are a firehose that never stops. The whole time you’re there, it is go, go, go – it’s great, you leave with a bazillion ideas. But there is so much, and there is only so …
3 weeks ago
Speed Running Buddhism Misses the Point
Cue the commencement speeches for 2026, and this one from Ronnie Chieng. It’s a good watch; there is some NSFW language if you have your speakers on. My favourite comment – “Speed Running Buddhism Misses the Point” – everything is about the journey. It’s about the learning experience; it’s about the path you are on to improve. Great speech (and funny). Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.