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Footwork and Repetition
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Making Up Answers
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Don’t Feel Guilty about Design
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Now I understand High School
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The AI Cut and Paste Dilemma
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The Era of “I think this is the problem.”
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Up at 5 am for Saturday Morning Cartoons
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I Can do That!
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This Looks Like a Good Problem to Solve
If you want to be good at soccer in the long run, you need strong footwork. Over time, we all get slower; we can try to slow it down or improve our stamina, but we all get slower. It’s just life. But footwork, footwork isn’t built on speed, it’s built on control, repetition, and most importantly, being able to handle the ball without looking at it. Repetition and being able to handle the ball without looking at it – seems like an important skill for a job when speed fails. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up …
Making Up Answers
Greg Thomas
I ran into this scenario with Claude a few weeks ago. I was trying to figure out what an API can and cannot do. In an effort to make me happy, it made up a method for an API that did not exist. You’re right to question it — I fabricated that endpoint. It doesn’t exist in the official Power Platform API. Sorry about that. And then it kept going on, until I went back to the piece about it, fabricating an endpoint. Yes, I did — and I shouldn’t have. I presented that URL with confidence as if it …
3 days ago
Don’t Feel Guilty about Design
Greg Thomas
In anything, good design is what sets good work apart from itself. Did you take the time to learn the underlying structure? Did you look at the technology and libraries that were being used? Did you think about the usage scenarios that would be applied by your team? Did you run through multiple problems in your head to resolve them? In the early stages, we complain about design taking too long; it’s not a sexy billable either, but when the product ships, when it runs without falling over. Yeah, that’s good design, so make sure you give it the focus …
1 week ago
This Looks Like a Good Problem to Solve
Often when I’m working through problems, I’ll find another one that looks good to solve. It’s very akin to when you’re putting up a shelf – oh yeah, it needs to be level, I want it screwed into a stud, I want the screws hidden – and this then breeds things like – oh wait, the wall has a bend in it, I need to account for it, or the studs don’t line up as they should. Some of these problems you need to fix now, others can wait (studs in the wrong place) – you have to choose what …
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No One Person is the Meeting
If one person cannot attend the meeting, you need to cancel the meeting. The meeting should then be about why that one person is so critical to the meeting and what we need to do to remove that dependency. A meeting of one is only good for the one. 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.
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Worth the Travel?
Is your work worth the travel? Is what you are getting out of it – paycheck, experience, knowledge, teaching, training worth the travel? Does it get you all of those things or just some? Is it worth more in the long run vs the short run? If it takes 2 hours to get there, but you get compensated with meals, does that make up for the travel time? What if you need to stay late on Wednesdays? The only person you can decide whether your job is worth the travel is you; you’re the only one who can make that …