5 hours ago
The Importance of Design
1 day ago
The Pace of Change is Collapsing
2 days ago
A New Fresh Look
3 days ago
Knowing your Code Context
4 days ago
Chocolate Milk and Coffee do not Mix
5 days ago
Your Daily Learn
6 days ago
I Don’t Know
1 week ago
The Developer Leadership Balance
1 week ago
You’ve hit your Usage Limits
1 week ago
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Design without code is not a great design; it’s airy, never been proven, just there, who knows what it could mean. Design is important, whether you do it with AI or on your own; there is value in that work, and it is largely unhidden. If it fails, everyone knows it was a bad design. If it works, no one ever mentions it again. Some of the best code I ever wrote was a simple design to send out invoices every day to customers to get our money. It ran for years without ever needing someone to coddle it or …
The Pace of Change is Collapsing
Greg Thomas
I can go onto LinkedIn, do a bunch of reading on where people are at, and then I can go learn how things work. Learning is the fun stuff; it’s where you get to open your mind to all the possibilities around you. And then you can go back to LinkedIn and realize you are behind (or think you are). Every day, people are doing something different with what they have learned, and the gaps between what they learn and implement are shifting dramatically. With that, we lose something, though, the time to ponder, to think, to consider, to absorb, …
2 days ago
A New Fresh Look
Greg Thomas
It has some bugs to work out, but I gave Rambli a refresh – I can’t remember the last time it was that I did this – but it felt like a good time. There are some bugs, some good, some bad, some ugly, that I need to figure out. There is probably more around how I write and what I put into that writing that matters a bit more. Maybe this is the kick to improve and do something a bit different. The kinks will get worked out over the next week or so, and then we’ll wonder why …
1 week ago
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
In University, I took a critical thinking course with a slant towards Psychology. Others took critical thinking courses with a slant towards Philosophy. I’m sure there are other options out there. Regardless, they were two (separate) books, you had to pore through. They weren’t easy reads, and they made you question many things. But they taught me how to approach problems, how to break things down, how to make the complex simplified. In the age of AI, getting to the root of a user’s problem is the most valuable resource you have. Anyone can go type into AI and get …
1 week ago
We still Need Walkthroughs
When I was stuck on a level in a game, magazines and instruction booklets that came with the game were my way through; they were the walkthrough I needed to get there. I still had to do the work, but I had the path forward; now I just had to take it. Just because we all have AI, don’t discount the use of giving your users a walkthrough – they still want to be able to do things themselves, with a little help. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback …
Yes, But What does it do?
If you can’t tell me what it does, then it doesn’t matter what the fix is, we have a much bigger problem. And that is, we don’t know what it does. Whether it’s you, AI, or Fred at the coffee shop, you need to know what it does. Base metric. 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.