60 minutes ago
Filling in Gaps
1 day ago
Trench Leadership
2 days ago
Maintaining your AI
3 days ago
The Login Problem
4 days ago
I’m Reading a Textbook
5 days ago
Software Libraries Die
6 days ago
Kick-Offs
1 week ago
Just a Quick Question
1 week ago
The Never Shipped
1 week ago
Your Best Time
60 minutes ago
There are some days when my role is to fill in gaps. We don’t have “X,” and no one knows “X”? Looks like I’m spending some time learning “X” today. I have zero complaints about filling gaps, because I think it’s where you can get the best opportunity to learn a new thing and figure out how it connects to everything else you do. It can seem stressful; it’s akin to someone dropping a stack of files on your desk – “Here, figure it out”. That’s okay, we need more of “Here, figure it out”. Want more? Check out my …
1 day ago
Trench Leadership
Greg Thomas
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
Greg Thomas
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 …
1 week ago
Your Best Time
Your best time is the time that everything will forever be compared to. Forevermore, you will fight to beat and surpass it. Maybe you will, maybe you won’t. You might share it; many do, just as many don’t. Why? Because it’s their best time; it doesn’t need to be shared. Your Best Time is forever yours and yours to do with as you see fit. Surpass it, share it, hide it, admire it, let it rest, brag about it, don’t talk about it, leave it or forget it. It’s Yours to do with as you please. Want more? Check out …
2 weeks ago
Take a Leap
Not a Hike. Not a Jump. Take a Leap, take a chance, do the thing that you’re not sure if you should do, and go for it. Any way you slice it, you always win with a Leap – you learn, you grow, you fall down, you pick yourself up, and you go again. If you haven’t taken a leap lately, maybe that’s what’s really bugging you. 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
It Gets Better
It might get worse before it gets better. But it always gets better. Maybe not back to where you were before, but better than where you are now. But only if you’re willing to work on the problem, only if you’re willing to dig deep. It can get better, but it’s on you to put in the effort to get it there. 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.