10 hours ago
Hitting your Pace
1 day ago
AI Rest
2 days ago
Trends on Trends
3 days ago
The Bermuda Triangle
4 days ago
Various Ideas
5 days ago
Too Much To Do
6 days ago
AI Wash
1 week ago
The Big Day
2 weeks ago
Filling in Gaps
2 weeks ago
Trench Leadership
I run a comfortable 6:30 – 7:00 per km pace. I vary between it, sometimes going lower, sometimes higher (depending on where I am in the run), but generally I’m there in that bracket. The only way it will improve is if each day I show up (giving space for rest days) and work each day to shave off a second here, a second there. The goal is to get below 6 mins consistently, and at first I thought that was a goal that could be done in 2 – 3 months, but I was properly corrected – by my …
AI Rest
Greg Thomas
When my chainsaw gets too hot, I give it a rest and go off for a bit, then let it cool down before doing more work. After all, I don’t want the motor to overheat and then have to buy a whole new one and have it cost even more. Does the same apply to our AI interactions? Let AI go to town for a bit, but then put it on pause over lunch so it can cool down and come back at it? Or do we keep expanding infinitum so it is always online, all the time, consuming everything? …
Trends on Trends
Greg Thomas
Last week I was scrolling through social media and found this cool video of a guy on a kayak, tons of camera gear, catching a fish, and cooking it on the kayak. Each time it got more elaborate with what he was cooking. Then my feed popped up with someone else doing it, with a different take on the trend; they were on a jetski, zipping around and doing the same thing. Then I saw more posts that flipped the trend a bit more, as each person had to take their crack at the trend. But in the end, there …
2 weeks ago
Trench Leadership
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
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 weeks ago
The Login Problem
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 …