Articles for category: Drive

8 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.

8 months ago

Greg Thomas

Your Charging Station

Our phones show us when they need a charge and we dutifully find an outlet, tv, computer, anything that can give them a boost. We set them aside, letting them rest, letting them reinvigorate and come back ready for more. We do this for our phones. When was the last time you rushed to find a charging station for yourself? When you rushed to get somewhere, shut off all incoming notifications and spent the next 30 minutes recharging? Maybe it’s time you did.

8 months ago

Greg Thomas

Coding Offline

It used to be that you could take your entire codebase, drop it on a laptop, and code to heart’s content without having to worry about online connections and wifi connections. Now, you have to be connected all the time to get at your data, to validate the service from another partner. Coding Offline, in a cave, by yourself is a thing of the past. Mock frameworks, services and localized databases can enable you to be able to do that. But you need to set it all up and if it’s not your first instinct to do so, then it

8 months ago

Greg Thomas

Everything is Dead

On any day you’re reading the following; Every profession is dead. Small companies will be drowned out by Vibe Coded Apps Anyone writing code for more than 10 minutes is wasting their time. We are laying off people to make room to buy more machines. That’s a pretty bleary way to start your Monday morning as you try to get going for the week ahead. Everything isn’t dying, it’s changing. Vibe Coded Apps solve some problems, but like any generated code, they create their own as well. You’re not wasting your time coding for more than 10 minutes; you’re learning.