Never. If you coded for 10 years, and then stopped because you had to focus on the growth and mentoring of others and didn’t have the opportunity to sit down in front of a keyboard and punch out brackets and semi-colons in your free time are you no longer considered a coder? No. What if you simply became bored with what you were building and tried your hand at other pursuits for a period of…
I’ve taken to using those productivity timer tools of late, being a little weary of what they offer. And what they offer is great. The one I am big on these days is Strick Workflow because it is so simple. It’s a Chrome extension, so easily installed across my various profiles and it has one job (but does two); Block access to sites for x period of time. Give you a break for x period…
It’s easy to say no, easy to hear it and easy to walk away from it. It’s a whole other story to receive it, think about it, take it in and step back on it. Why was it a no? Did I go wrong somewhere? Was there a misunderstanding? It could be no for a variety of reasons, but the ones who convert the No into Yes are the ones who ask themselves those questions…
We’ve all worked on the bug fix that turned into a hot feature or something we’ve built that ended up being a “bonus feature” for the customer. While recently using the “Low Battery Mode” of my iPhone to conserve my battery power, I came to enjoy my phone running in this mode primarily because I took control when all notifications were sent to me. That’s right, while conserving power, my phone could last at 20%…
Some days I write a great article that gets tons of views. Some days the post I compose is so hot my keyboard melts. Some days when I am back in the code, I’m amazed and how well it works. And some days… it’s the complete opposite… but on those days I tried to write something new… something I’m not quite sure what it fully meant and how it entered my consciousness, but it was…