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Tue Jul 22
Some of life’s best ideas come from just sitting down with a cup of coffee and staring out the window. I thought about a message I stumbled upon a while back, mentioning a new Canadian git hosting company called Worktree. As a fellow...
"How Optimists Are Alike"
We had a short weekend at the Grand View Lodge in Nisswa, Minnesota. Here are some pictures from that trip.
I’ve been using the Tailwind CSS Framework for about two and a half years (as of July 2025) for my personal projects, and I used it professionally in my time at unstructured as well. In all, I think it’s a good thing. However, I don’t...
Thankful for 3 good things: a new day to start anew; balance, or moderation, as a goal; the guarantee of victory. God is good and to be thanked always. ¶ Wednesday studies are progressing along nicely. Tonight, we'll work on D. Pharr's...
“Can you review the articles on thomasrigby.com and tell me what the key themes emerging are?”
There’s one quote from Twilight of the Elites (Chris Hayes, 2013) that has stuck with me since reading the book earlier this year. In sharing his experience attending the prestigious test-in Hunter College High School in Manhattan, Hayes...
i've been sitting on the beginnings, or rather the dredges of this note, this "entry", for a good while now. today was ostensibly "good", "exciting" even. i met with a lovely friend, got two lots of incredible news, and played a...
I went with CO on a short adventure this morning to visit the puffins on Pearl Island. They are typically around until early-mid August so its getting a little late. This was the first time with a much smaller and quieter boat, so we...
Code less. Create more. Deploy everywhere. Qt motto, Qt Company Poem: Qt's a cutie A framework made to bring you smiles Without a lot to bear; Code less, no stress; make more — galore; And deploy everywhere! The Qt C++ framework (with Qt...
a look back at the first year of the blog series "The Future is Federated" and what lies ahead
Spending an afternoon building a simple tool that may or may not prove useful in the near or far future.
20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 4) Previously in "20 years of Linux on the Deskop": After contributing to the launch of Ubuntu as the "perfect Linux desktop", Ploum realises that Ubuntu is drifting away from both Debian and GNOME....
There's something quietly dignified about a clean commit history, well written patch/pull requests, and documentation. It tells you someone gave a damn. That they weren't just slinging code to pass tests, but writing with others,...
Google founders, 1999; photo by William Mercer McLeod. "Aren’t you rather late to the game?" It's January 1999 and that question was put to Google's young founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The interviewer was Karsten Lemm from a...
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