October 10, 2021
Is it the duration that kills us? The unknown? If we knew, would we care how long it would take? If we knew how long we’d have to wait but still knew that it was an unknown would it still drive us up the wall waiting for the answer? Does it matter how many times you hit refresh or pull down on your notifications? It doesn’t. Sometimes all you can do is wait.
October 8, 2021
I have spent most of this week refactoring code. Tweaking it. Optimizing it. Tracking it. Making it more performant, trying to figure out what does and doesn’t work and work, debugging through a mountain of bugs, and generally… making it work. It’s not simple work, it’s frustrating, it’s time-consuming, but it’s always eye-opening how the beauty of simplifying your work, has the potential to work that much better.
October 4, 2021
I don’t mind the no code movement. But code will never go away. That’s not some kind of die-hard statement on the future of no-code – it will succeed and bring its platform to the masses. But someone is going to have to write all that code. And that’s going to be a lot of fun.
October 3, 2021
There is never enough time to take a step back and figure out what is wrong. Never. Ever. Until it breaks and then you have a ton of time on your hands to figure it all out, design the perfect solution and fix everything that was wrong. That’s odd, I thought there wasn’t enough time?
September 29, 2021
At a new job, new project, we all need help to get started and figure out what we’re actually supposed to do. “What is this bug? What am I suppose to do with it? Where is the code? How does it work?” In the back of my head, I’ve always had a hidden evaluation metric running where I want to see how far you can get to after Step 1. Do you go from Step 1 to 2 before asking for more help? Do you go from Step 1 to 5 before asking for more help? Do you go all
