Articles for category: Drive

11 months ago

Greg Thomas

When to Critique

There are times when critique is needed and times when it serves no value. First Day on the job?  Give them a chance, everyone screws up. Second Day on the job?  Where were you on your second day? Third week on the job?  Are they learning and still trying? Would you critique a fireperson’s use of a hose as they are in the middle of putting out the fire? Definitely not, they got the fire out. Save the critique for after the fire, when everyone’s heads are clear and no one’s life is on the line. The same goes for

11 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Old Ways

There is no alternative to building a rock garden but to do the hard work and gather rocks. It’s simply how it works: you go, you get rocks, and you build a garden. There is no way to hack it, hustle it, AI it or amplify it. You collect rocks, you tweak them over and over again, trying to find the perfect fit until you have something resembling a garden. If I’m building a log cabin, the requirements are the same – I need logs, straight logs, shaved down logs, and if I want insulation, I need something between them

11 months ago

Greg Thomas

Vibe Coding – Hold My Beer

Do I want to code via prompt? Not really. I don’t write by voice. I don’t text by voice. I prefer a keyboard, a soft-keyed keyboard at that. I like pressing F5 and seeing what happens. Am I better than Vibe Coding?  Doubt it, probably not as efficient, and I might go slower, whereas it is significantly faster. It’s like telling a construction worker to throw their tools at the materials, go away for an hour, and come back to a house that’s built for them. But what’s the point?  The purpose of the tools and materials is for the

11 months ago

Greg Thomas

Does Anyone Know?

If no one knows the answer to your question, then you’ve become the expert in that area. Or that’s the joke. That’s not the answer you were looking for, but it’s the truth as to what is going to happen next. Your options: become the expert, relish in it, own it, make it your own, or put it aside and wait for someone else who wants to take on the role. When you’re an expert, everyone knows who to go to, and that person is you.

11 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Inefficient Cloud

When we had to buy hardware to set up your tests, we were efficient as hell. We would spend weeks, maybe even months, watching for deals and agonizing over cache, RAM, CPU, disk arrays, and storage size. Someone still has to do that to make the implementation of clouds effective, but you don’t have to do it anymore.  We barely have server rooms anymore. Now you want to try out a virtual machine or build a resource group, you spin it up and go to town.  For getting up and running quickly, this is a dream, no more weeks and

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