Articles for category: Delivery

8 months ago

Greg Thomas

Coding Offline

It used to be that you could take your entire codebase, drop it on a laptop, and code to heart’s content without having to worry about online connections and wifi connections. Now, you have to be connected all the time to get at your data, to validate the service from another partner. Coding Offline, in a cave, by yourself is a thing of the past. Mock frameworks, services and localized databases can enable you to be able to do that. But you need to set it all up and if it’s not your first instinct to do so, then it

8 months ago

Greg Thomas

Changing the Unknown

Most of the time, people don’t want to change because they don’t know what change looks like or how long it will take. Neither question can you answer with certainty. With all the time in the world, you may never be able to answer that question. You just have to change and work your way through it.

8 months ago

Greg Thomas

Everything is Dead

On any day you’re reading the following; Every profession is dead. Small companies will be drowned out by Vibe Coded Apps Anyone writing code for more than 10 minutes is wasting their time. We are laying off people to make room to buy more machines. That’s a pretty bleary way to start your Monday morning as you try to get going for the week ahead. Everything isn’t dying, it’s changing. Vibe Coded Apps solve some problems, but like any generated code, they create their own as well. You’re not wasting your time coding for more than 10 minutes; you’re learning.

8 months ago

Greg Thomas

The First 15 Pages

The first 15 pages are the test. They might not be your speed – perhaps too fast, too chaotic, too slow – perhaps that’s the narrative of the story taking place, and they want you to feel that. But they are a test. If you can get through the first 15, the next 15 might be better, or maybe you’ll have enough knowledge to know that they aren’t as bad. Then, when you’re 150 pages in, you might go – wow, this is unbelievable and incredible, why did I never read this before? Or you might realize it’s not your

8 months ago

Greg Thomas

Working through the Frustrations

When you’re learning something new, it’s the frustrations that make it worthwhile because when you break through, you realize just how far you have come. I use AI to help on the daily with tasks that I know, should know, and have worked through in the past. I went through those frustrations and learned how it worked behind the scenes so I could get to that point. If you haven’t gone through the frustrations, you haven’t learned anything; you’ve been given something, but learned something?  No. So the question is do you want to learn something or have it be

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