19 minutes ago
Trench Leadership
1 day ago
Maintaining your AI
2 days ago
The Login Problem
3 days ago
I’m Reading a Textbook
4 days ago
Software Libraries Die
5 days ago
Kick-Offs
7 days ago
Just a Quick Question
1 week ago
The Never Shipped
1 week ago
Your Best Time
1 week ago
Take a Leap
19 minutes ago
If you’re using AI to help run your team, you’re missing out on the best part of working with a team: being in the trenches with them. I’ve never been able to lead a team and not do coding with them; I can’t do it. This doesn’t mean I’m in there coding 24/7, but if I can take a few bugs off the team’s plate or figure out what some investigation issues, I will gladly do that work. Sometimes it comes in peaks and valleys, but not being in the trenches with the team, it just doesn’t feel like leading. …
Maintaining your AI
Greg Thomas
LLMs keep learning, growing, and improving. But they are only as good as the scenarios that they are dropped into. For instance; A new code library that doesn’t log errors- great when it works, not great when it fails. Requirements that use “generic” nomenclature and not what everyone else uses, only good if you’re a senior dev. QA Test Cases that generate failure scenarios for tests which don’t apply to your stack? Add extra work. Diagrams that point to systems that don’t exist (but should), don’t give you the current state. If you’re not cleaning up and working with your …
2 days ago
The Login Problem
Greg Thomas
Despite everything we have advanced in application, the one that still lags behind as a brutal throwback to the earliest websites are login pages. Username, Password, Forgot Password. Sure, we have mixed and matched them with expiry links and codes (oh so many codes), but the structure and nature of the page is still the same – username and password. Nothing here has changed; sure, we have authenticator apps and codes – but the concept of login pages has spun out entire software product lines to manage the myriad of passwords we have. In whatever you are building, you are …
1 week ago
Take a Leap
Not a Hike. Not a Jump. Take a Leap, take a chance, do the thing that you’re not sure if you should do, and go for it. Any way you slice it, you always win with a Leap – you learn, you grow, you fall down, you pick yourself up, and you go again. If you haven’t taken a leap lately, maybe that’s what’s really bugging you. 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.
2 weeks ago
It Gets Better
It might get worse before it gets better. But it always gets better. Maybe not back to where you were before, but better than where you are now. But only if you’re willing to work on the problem, only if you’re willing to dig deep. It can get better, but it’s on you to put in the effort to get it there. 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.
The Authenticator App Problem
My authenticator app is overflowing with sites – everyone wants a code for me to log in with now. Do they need the code? I don’t know. But now that one does it, they all do it. I am using different codes for different apps. We’re not solving the problem of authentication; we’re simply duplicating it across every piece of infrastructure we now touch. 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.