Month: April 2025

April 13, 2025

Greg Thomas

Showing Your Work

It’s getting harder to show your work. What are you going to show when asking a question to a search engine? Your question? What about ChatGPT? Your prompt? Work is important, it matters, but showing what you are working on, and how you are arriving at your answer is changing. The question of how you got to that answer needs to change as well. I tried this, then I tried that, I didn’t agree with all of it, so I dug deeper, then I thought of this, then I asked someone for help and then I got here. Showing your

April 12, 2025

Greg Thomas

Situp Straight

How often did you hear this growing up? “Sit up or you’ll be a slouch forever!” When was the last time someone said it to you? Did they finally give up on you? Did it ever resonate with you or do you still slouch? Is it one of those things that never caught on? I’m not the best at Sitting Up and often find myself, reminding myself to do it or seeing someone else slouching and thinking “Wow is that me”. Was there a better way to get me SitUp growing up? Was there another way to instill this habit

April 11, 2025

Greg Thomas

What’s Next?

What’s your next job? What’s your next project? What’s your next task? What’s the next goal you want to achieve? What’s the next vacation I’m going to take? Everyone needs a “What’s Next?”, not because you need to overload yourself and never take a break but rather because you need to have something to look forward to, something that can give you something to look forward to. The next is what drives us forward, and keeps us moving forward.

April 10, 2025

Greg Thomas

Gut It

Ever looked at a project and thought – “This is a gut job”? Take it right down to the bare bones, save nothing, and start all over again, from the foundation up? It’s our first instinct when something is wrong – “Let me rebuild it the way I would do it.” But what we often forget when it comes to the Gut Jobs; The overages (because they will happen). Living through it (because you will have to). Getting to where you are now (because you do want to ship at some point). The toll it will take (not only on

April 9, 2025

Greg Thomas

Building Your Own Tools

When the tools you have don’t work, sometimes you need to take on the arduous task of building your own. From there, it becomes a question of whether you’re going to share it with the team and others in its stable form or go the route of sharing how you built it with others (a la Github) or not share it with anyone at all. The first option is pretty safe, people can’t see what your code looks like, so they use it, and thank you. The second option is open to questions and interpretation – Why did you build

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