Articles for category: Ideas

1 week ago

Greg Thomas

The Ownership in Your Work

If it breaks, it’s on you. If it looks like you copied it from AI without your own context, you copied it from AI without your own context. If it’s sloppy, you wrote it. If it doesn’t work, you built it. Things don’t always go the way we want in our work, but the level of effort and commitment that we invest is always, entirely up to us. Sloppy, Lazy, cut-and-paste work is a signal of our investment and commitment. You can own and make it more, or leave it and hope no one cares. The thing about ownership, which

2 weeks ago

Greg Thomas

What Most Architecture Designs Miss

What you build, how you design work- these things all matter when building a software solution (yes, even today in the age of AI) – because I think, for the most part, we all want our work to stand the test of time. In order for your work to stand the test of time, it needs one very important thing backing it. What is the problem you are trying to solve? If you can’t condense that down to one sentence, then it doesn’t matter what you have designed; I know you don’t understand what you are designing it for, and

3 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Login Problem

Despite everything we have advanced in application, the one that still lags behind as a brutal throwback to the earliest websites are login pages. Username, Password, Forgot Password. Sure, we have mixed and matched them with expiry links and codes (oh so many codes), but the structure and nature of the page is still the same – username and password. Nothing here has changed; sure, we have authenticator apps and codes – but the concept of login pages has spun out entire software product lines to manage the myriad of passwords we have. In whatever you are building, you are

4 months ago

Greg Thomas

I’m Reading a Textbook

Yes, I picked up a textbook (2 actually) on learning a new software language, and I love it. I love having everything in one place. I love reading the sidebars and comments on how things work and how to get started. I love hearing about a person’s learning journey from beginning to end. I love being on a logical roadmap instead of trying to figure it out on my own. And I enjoy the feeling and satisfaction of completing a chapter. Also, I like turning the page to something new, something a blog post will never be able to replicate.

4 months ago

Greg Thomas

Your Best Time

Your best time is the time that everything will forever be compared to. Forevermore, you will fight to beat and surpass it. Maybe you will, maybe you won’t. You might share it; many do, just as many don’t. Why? Because it’s their best time; it doesn’t need to be shared. Your Best Time is forever yours and yours to do with as you see fit. Surpass it, share it, hide it, admire it, let it rest, brag about it, don’t talk about it, leave it or forget it. It’s Yours to do with as you please.

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