craig williams

dad, runner, software developer, blogger, wannabe photographer

[Webtonic Solutions @WebtonicOS]

🚀 **We’re officially an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner!**

We are proud to announce that **Webtonic Solutions has achieved AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner status**, an important milestone that reflects our proven technical expertise, successful customer engagements and continued investment in delivering secure, scalable and innovative cloud solutions on Amazon Web Services.

This achievement strengthens our ability to help businesses modernise their infrastructure, migrate workloads to the cloud, optimise performance and costs and build solutions that support long-term growth.

A sincere thank you to our talented team, valued clients, and partners for being part of this journey. Your trust and support have made this achievement possible.

We look forward to helping even more organisations unlock the full potential of AWS.

Let’s build what’s next, together.

#AWSPartner #AWS #CloudComputing #DigitalTransformation #CloudSolutions #WebtonicSolutions

[Webtonic Solutions @WebtonicOS]

Companies that implement business-to-consumer platforms to service customers don’t realise the downstream impact that it has on it’s customers, resulting in the end them leaving.

Take a look at the areas we have identified as customer pain points.

Which of these issues are costing you the most?
Find Out What Is Breaking.

Book a Free B2B E-Commerce assessment today : https://t.co/EaPsTlggKu

[Webtonic Solutions @WebtonicOS]

Is your B2B e-commerce platform helping customers buy—or quietly pushing them away?

Join us as we unpack why consumer-grade platforms often struggle with the realities of B2B buying, from complex pricing and approvals to purchase orders and account payments. Discover how the right digital experience can reduce friction, strengthen customer relationships and protect your sales.

30 July at 12:00 - 13:00 on Teams:
https://t.co/oaFlwEujaQ

[Angie Jones @techgirl1908]

The road to becoming an AI-native org is paved with new (and arguably exciting?) challenges.

We've gotten to the point where we're delegating work to multiple agents running in parallel. But now it's a human and 5 agents all trying to work on a single laptop. Yes, this is as messy as it sounds lol.

We've built an orchestrator, but that only solves coordination. My poor laptop is still fighting for its life!

We used @CoderHQ to provision dedicated, isolated Workspaces so that both devs and agents could run their tasks in our cloud-based environments. Now each workflow has its own space with the resources and dependencies it needs without stepping on anything else.

That also gave us more control. Work is now consistent and reproducible with the right guardrails in place.

If your org has agents as workers, it's time to get them off of your engineers' laptops and into proper environments. Tools like Coder make that possible with features like Agent Boundaries, AI Bridge, and Tasks to help teams run agents securely and at scale, whether in your cloud or on prem.

Thanks so much for the collaboration, Coder! We're now cooking

Check it out for yourself
https://t.co/yViPLPfzkg

[Dr. Greg McKeown @GregoryMcKeown]

How many times have you heard the following phrases?

•No pain, no gain
•Never stop grinding
•Give it 110%

These mantras have led to two things:
A mass culture of burnout, especially among high achievers
People working harder and harder but getting worse results

Neither outcome is optimal.

In my recent HBR article, I propose a solution: the 85% rule.

The 85% rule states to reach maximum output, you need to refrain from giving maximum effort.

Think of a car that is continuously redlined — you may start fast, but mechanical trouble is sure to follow.

Even if it’s counterintuitive, past a certain point, more effort doesn't increase our results; it sabotages them.

Here are two things I’m committing to do for the rest of this year:

Working below my capacity. I’m setting an upper bound at 85% to help me achieve optimal results For example, I’ll never write more than 1,000 words per day.

Creating a "done for the day" time. I’m establishing a time when my work is done, and sticking to it.

Have you ever intentionally given less effort? How did it work for you?

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

One thing is abundantly clear. Wielding a power tool like Claude requires a lot of skill.

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

The whole SDD (Spec Driven Design) thing is very valuable for AI development; but it carries the risk of BUFD. We'd like to avoid that. So the iterative nature of software development should be maintained. Just enough specs for the stories in this sprint -- just like we used to say that QA should write just enough acceptance tests for this sprint.

Also, we will be modifying those specs as the sprints go by. Specs will be co-authored by the humans and the AI, but with final approval, ferociously defended, by the humans.

And don't fret about the word "sprint", even if your sprint size is a day, an hour, or a microsecond, the same rules apply. Small Steps.

[Webtonic Solutions @WebtonicOS]

AI can give you answers instantly, but mentoring teaches developers how to question those answers.

In a world where tools can generate solutions in seconds, the real skill is learning to think critically, challenge assumptions, and understand the “why” behind every decision.

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

For the time being AI coders will need a good working knowledge of code in order to be most effective; but that need is going to recede as the models improve. But code is the least of the skills that a good programmer needs. Problem solving, system thinking, product awareness, and structural competence have always been more important than coding; and those skills are more important than ever.

[DHH @dhh]

Make 2018 the year you decide to get calm. Stop smiling when you say "it's crazy at work". It doesn't have to be, and it's better when it's not.

[Rob Myers 🍵 禅 ☸️ Ⓥ 🏳️‍🌈 @agilecoach]

Turns out, (1) I knew more than I thought I knew; (2) I always learned from the person I paired with (even if they were "junior"); and (3) pairing helped keep us focused on, energized for, and curious about the work.

[DHH @dhh]

You want to a short cut to more productivity? 1) Get a great night’s sleep, 2) Get plenty of fresh air, 3) Get regular exercise, 4) Read some classics, 5) Say no to more dumb shit. Voila, Superhuman reporting for duty!

[Jason McCreary @gonedark]

🔥 Pushing yourself to remove comments is one of the best drivers towards clean code. Here's a few tips on how to spot and replace comments that may be unnecessary…

[craig williams @craig_ewen]

@TRAILza @fsaevents @SANParksAENP @RaidlightZa @ITRA_trail @SPOT_Africa @SANParks @Quinn_oils @PPC_Africa @raidlight I’ll be in for the #addo44.

[Science of Us @thescienceofus]

Being more productive isn't about pushing harder, as it also requires finding the right amount of rest and stress https://t.co/FJv4gegGdI

[craig williams @craig_ewen]

@MarkPearlCoZa Hey @MarkPearlCoZa. That's me. 🙂

[craig williams @craig_ewen]

@AxxessDSL when are you bringing fibre to Summerstrand in PE?

[Modern Athlete @modern_athlete]

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. - Charles Spurgeon #quote

[Jacob Morgan @jacobm]

This is what the employee of the future looks like #futureofwork http://t.co/uAYrldIRwA #NewWayToWork

[Modern Athlete @modern_athlete]

Always do your best and you will find that you never need to compare yourself to others. - Rich Simmonds