6 months ago
I never got up at 5 am to go stand in line for Boxing Day. Too many crowds, all immediate purchases, not enough browse time. I remember the first year you could buy “online” for Boxing Day – I bought a phone online before we sat down for dinner on XMAS – no lines, no early mornings, just a cup of tea and the internet. And that’s the day Boxing Day just became another day off for me to do anything else.
6 months ago
No one is watching to see how often you post, when your last update was, or what the space in between is. They are waiting to see when you are coming back. Gaps aren’t from a lack of discipline or consistency; they emerge when we are overloaded. But they don’t rule us; they just wait for them to take them back.
6 months ago
Eventually, it will all break. Yes, all of it, everything will break. Someone will trip over a cord, a surge of power, a misplaced “.”, a bad line of code, whatever – it will all break. Or maybe it will simply be wear and tear and longevity. After 18 years, don’t you want a break from working 24 x 7, never stopping, never going on vacation, doing the job every day, that needs to be done? My Hater Heater is 18 years old and died last week. It’s been fun without it; you don’t realize how much you need it,
6 months ago
I love this definition of an AI agent today – “Brilliant, but lacks expertise.” This is 100% how I see AI agents today. I found this video interesting, if only because it gave a non-hyped version of agents. You wouldn’t hire a developer to manage your network, and that’s the same way you should approach the development of your agents – one size does not fit all.
6 months ago
Problems are easy to identify, trickier to articulate. “The tire is flat.” Why? I don’t know, but it’s flat, maybe it has something to do with driving over those jagged pieces of wood? The clear articulation of problems is once again becoming the defining trait for software developers; we’re finally moving from knowledge of languages and into “figuring out what is wrong and finding a solution for it.” But it starts with figuring out the problem so everyone understands.
