2 hours ago
The Skills You Need
1 day ago
Plan Forward
2 days ago
Setting the AI Foundations
3 days ago
The Frenetic Developer
4 days ago
Who Attends the Meeting?
5 days ago
Loss of Flow
6 days ago
The Perfect Update
1 week ago
Onboarding Quickly is a Skill
1 week ago
The Dying Seconds
1 week ago
Learning for the Team
2 hours ago
In the AI era of development, you might not need to know every single development framework under the sun. But you should still know the ones you are asking AI to build – afterall – whose going to be fixing the bugs? Problem identification has, and always will be, important and will never go out of style. Being able to look at an issue and break it down – “this is important but not urgent” is a skill many lack. Debugging is going to be the #1 skill of any developer – how quickly and efficiently can you diagnose an …
Plan Forward
Greg Thomas
It seems odd: a Plan that moves you forward. But sometimes, it bears reminding – plans are built to move the team forward, to show progress, delivery, and success. They are meant to deliver. If your plan doesn’t move forward, what is it moving to? 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 days ago
Setting the AI Foundations
Greg Thomas
If you’re running your business from Notepad, AI won’t help much. Maybe if you had thousands of text files to comb through, it could provide an analysis and give you some details on what is what. But would you want to keep running your business that way? Would you want to, inefficiently, ask AI to parse through thousands of text files of data on a daily basis, just to “figure out” what to do? At some point, the AI is going to come back and say, “there is a better way to do this”. So why not do that better …
Learning for the Team
When leading a team, there are things you need to learn so your team can have someone to talk to and bounce ideas off of. You don’t need to have all the answers. You are not meant to be an expert. You are meant to be there for your team. You are meant to take that “new” thing you learned, apply everything that you know, and provide an opinion on how they could solve a problem. Sometimes, that’s why you might need to do some learning for your team, even if you’re not the one doing the actual work. Queue …
1 week ago
The Flea Market
There is a Flea Market near where I live. Growing up, it was huge, drawing big crowds every weekend, and it was a “thing” to go to it. It’s since shrunk down and gotten shuttled to the side, but it still survived for many years. And now word that it is shutting down completely. There are lots of videos about “amazing finds” at flea markets – I’ve always liked them for the oddities and all the memories you can find when going through old treasures of years gone by. It’s a hard thing to keep going when your climate is …
2 weeks ago
The Author’s Notes
I never used to read the author’s notes before getting into a book – “Who cared what the person thought when they were writing this masterpiece? Get me to good stuff and let me know how it ends… SHOW ME THAT CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT”. But more and more, I’m fascinated by them in understanding what someone went through in creating this piece of art. Starting a new book today, from 1986, the author had about 10 pages of notes walking you through thought processes and how this book was their first idea but then they needed a prequel (and oddly enough …