The Importance of Design

Design without code is not a great design; it’s airy, never been proven, just there, who knows what it could mean. Design is important, whether you do it with AI or on your own; there is value in that work, and it is largely unhidden. If it fails, everyone knows it was a bad design. If it works, no one ever mentions it again. Some of the best code I ever wrote was a simple design to send out invoices every day to customers to get our money.  It ran for years without ever needing someone to coddle it or

2 weeks ago

Greg Thomas

The Pace of Change is Collapsing

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 weeks ago

Greg Thomas

A New Fresh Look

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