Articles for category: Drive

January 29, 2021

Greg Thomas

Equipment Goes Zoom

I had a horrible mic experience this past week recording and an episode of Remotely Prepared – turns out my mic defaulted to the wrong one and when I listened to the recording. It sounded like I was four tunnels below the surface, eating a sandwich. Not exactly the pristine quality we were hoping for. After realizing we would have to re-record, I then went through the arduous task of disabling mics I don’t use (since I have a solid boom mic) and doing test recordings in both Audacity and ZOOM – to make sure things worked the way they

January 23, 2021

Greg Thomas

How do I know if I’m a Developer?

If you have ever written a line of code, you are a developer – it’s that simple. It doesn’t matter if you sold it. It doesn’t matter if you packaged it. It doesn’t matter if you promote it on twitter. It doesn’t matter if showed it. All that matters is that you wrote that line of code, you ran it, and it did something. If it shows “Hello World” on your screen, then congratulations you are a Developer. With that being though, you are a very new Developer, but you are on your way to being a Developer if you

January 17, 2021

Greg Thomas

You’re Not Behind

You only think you are. I wrote this a few weeks ago on the ItsYourTurnBlog. If everyone was moving ahead and there was no pandemic and you decided to take three months, six months, a year off, you wouldn’t feel like you were behind. Because it was your choice. This time it isn’t. Still no reason to feel like you’re behind.

January 15, 2021

Greg Thomas

It’s all Going to Break

Your code. Your team. How you lead. What project you are working on. What you are learning. Everything, it all breaks at some point. Good. That’s the point, if it doesn’t break, you’re not learning, you’re going through tutorials and motions where everything is isolated and perfect. It’s messy, all of it, it’s supposed to be messy, that’s the point. Break it, make a mess, fix it and grow.

January 11, 2021

Greg Thomas

One Task at a Time

How will we get through this sprint? How will I finish this class? How will we ship to the customer? How will we get it done? How will we get the service uploaded? How will we launch the new site? It all starts with one task, accompanied by a number of other tasks, but in the end one task is where it starts. Focus there, on one task and move from there.

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