24 hours 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
7 days ago
The Developer Leadership Balance
1 week ago
You’ve hit your Usage Limits
1 week ago
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
1 week ago
We still Need Walkthroughs
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 …
Knowing your Code Context
Greg Thomas
There has never been a more important time to know what your code does and how it works. It’s no longer about knowing more than the other person who sits beside you. That competition is over; there are systems out there that will run circles around you. It’s about knowing the context of what your code does, what it talks to, what it interfaces with, and why it retrieves data in a certain way. Everyone is going to AI for answers, and the best piece of information that you can add that AI cannot is the context to your code. …
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.
2 weeks ago
How your Team is using AI
As a leader, if you are not asking yourself this question, you are not leading your team into the next era. Are they coding with it? Are they writing manuals? Are they letting it work for them? Is the team sharing skills? Are we all using different back-ends? You don’t have to have all the answers, but you need to be asking all the questions; someone else will, and they’ll be the ones people will be looking to lead the team. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon …