Month: October 2025

7 months ago

Greg Thomas

Holding onto the Gold Base

In the game of Starcraft, there is a concept of Gold Minerals in which there is only one in each game.  The gold minerals themselves are generally in the middle of the map and are away from your more comfortable “blue” minerals. You have to work to get to them, and when you get to them, you need to defend them.  It’s not an easy position to hold, and generally, there is much back and forth with your opponents as you win it, lose it, win it again. The pull of Gold Minerals is that you can yield twice as

7 months ago

Greg Thomas

Going the Fastest

AI might be faster. But you always knew someone that was faster than you. Whether you sat beside them, you heard them speak at a conference, or knew of them through myth or legend, you always knew there was someone faster than you out there. But you weren’t reminded about it all the time, as we are with AI. Your choices are to throw up your hands and go Oh well, figure out how to catch up, or create a new metric to evaluate yourself on. You can mix and mash the options as much as you want; the point

7 months ago

Greg Thomas

Emptying the Dishwasher

The poster child for “It’s going to take too long” is emptying the dishwasher. We look at all the dishes and start to make them bigger than it is in our heads; There are so many. I don’t know where they all go, I’ll have to look around. Some of these have odd shapes. Then we add in the other variables; There are clean dishes to put in. But not all of them fit, so does that mean I’ll have to wash them? Do I need to be somewhere? In truth, it takes less time to empty the dishwasher and

7 months ago

Greg Thomas

A little Bit Broken… is still… Broken

A bit broken is still broken. There is no fully broken – it either is or it isn’t. Cracks are broken. Fractures are broken. They are simply giving you time before they break further. You can either start fixing it now, or wait until it’s fully broken, and completely useless.

7 months ago

Greg Thomas

Learn through Blogging

I think if you ask anyone who writes a blog, the reason they start doing it is to learn. Case in Point – when I look at the content I have put out on BetaRover’s Blog over the past year, there’s a focus on the platforms I work with – but it does expand into different offshoots (I.e., it’s not all Azure Functions).  I will say, a good 1/3 of this blog are items I worked on this year, that I had to learn and figure out – and to remember them, I wrote them down. In a blog. Just

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