Tom's Thoughts on Software, management, and everything else
This is the culmination of a couple of thoughts I’ve had in my head the past few months. I think I’m not alone in some of these ideas. I just wanted to get these down to help articulate them, even if it’s only for myself. Through the fire We’ve seen a number of high severity […] The post The Bumpy Road Ahead first appeared on Tom's thoughts .
I went to a concert recently, and because I had a super early flight I decided to just go straight to the airport afterwards. It was late and I decided to use a Waymo to get there. Luckily I wasn’t in a rush, because this choice added about an hour to me getting to the […] The post Waymo can replace the driving, but not the driver first appeared on Tom's thoughts .
Years ago I read a quote about how to be a 10x developer and it stuck with me: There’s another, more common way to be a 10x programmer: generate technical debt at a rate that requires ten other developers to clean up the mess. The real magic is that this feeds back on itself: you […] The post We’re all 10x developers now first appeared on Tom's thoughts .
So I felt like 1 week was too short of an interval, but maybe 3 weeks is too long? We’ll keep fiddling until we can get it right. But also, I’ve been completely sucked into Satisfactory: I started playing it as a filler for our regular board game night with some friends and become absorbed […] The post Weekly-ish review 10/30-11/19 first appeared on Tom's thoughts .
We have a Yoto player, and we love it. It’s a great device and is perfect for when the kiddo wakes up before anyone else and you want to keep them in their room. They sell lots of genuinely great cards on their website (I highly recommend the Brain Bots series), and if you’re willing […] The post How To Make Custom Yoto Cards first appeared on Tom's thoughts .
Halloween is nearly upon us. We’ve been doing sleep therapy with the kid, which made me realize just how much I was using him as an alarm clock. I will need a better way of getting up in the mornings now. Been making some fall cocktails, which have turned out really good. The above is […] The post Weekly Notes – 10/16-10/29 first appeared on Tom's thoughts .
Did some fun stuff this past week. I made my favorite fall dessert, a caramel apple cake: https://cookingbythebook.com/cookbook-reviews/caramel-apple-cake-baked-explorations/ I made them as cupcakes because that makes them easier to share at work etc. Delicious as always, even if I screwed up the frosting a tad. Photo I made caramel! It turned out a little too […] The post Weekly Notes 10/15 first…
Another week down. This past week I shocked even myself in that it took me <15 minutes to stand up a Bluesky instance and hook it in to their protocol. We truly are in a golden age of self hosting. You can find me @tom.bluesky.bananastorm.com though I’m still not sure how much I’ll use it. […] The post Weekly notes 10/9 first appeared on Tom's thoughts .
Going to try to do something different here with a quick weekly notes post. Photo It’s fall and the weather is wonderful. I’ve been enjoying some walks with the kiddo and it’s a great way to wind down after work. What I’ve been reading I’ve not read as much stuff of late, but a few […] The post Weekly notes – 9/30 first appeared on Tom's thoughts .
So we’re going to go down a little rabbit hole regarding groovy string interpolation which I found odd enough to want to write up. First, some basics. Groovy uses string interpolation syntax similar to bash, which looks like this: Pretty straightforward, with a few interesting bits. First, you may have noted that we used both […] The post Nested string interpolation in Groovy first appeared on…