Thomas Rigby
Thomas Rigby
Thomas Rigby
A Gen-X/Millennial cusp (Xennial), I'm old enough to remember life before the internet but not (quite) old enough to have seen Nirvana live. Or, as my wife puts it, I adapt to technology like a Millennial but get angry about it like a Boomer.
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I devoured this said V.E. Schwab in a jacket quote either carefully written or carefully chosen because it references consuming. There is a secret race of creatures, the eponymous Book Eaters, that look like humans but are nourished by...
In the web design sense, "breadcrumbs" are the navigation helpers on many websites that show you where you are in the site — a path from where you currently are, back up the folder/URL structure, to the homepage. The terminology comes...
9th February - 15th February My phone vibrates quietly on the desk near my left hand. I put down my tea cup and pick it up. There is a local weather warning for snow. I shrug; there have been warnings like this recently that came to...
Not to get all hipster but I got into Charli XCX from being very tumblr online when she released True Romance. Her new album is the soundtrack from Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights" which feels like a flex but one I'm here for! Album...
Despite my good intentions, I still spend more time on my phone than I would like to. Actually, that's no surprise considering that it's such a powerful tool. niqwithq I have written on this topic before (quoting ava and discussing how...
In my job, we work with a lot of medical content that, for various legal reasons, cannot be public-facing. We are also very aware that the internet is, by default, very public-facing. How do we, as an industry, manage the access to...
I got this email today. "So what?", you might think, "Companies send order dispatched emails all the time". The thing is, I haven't ordered anything. It's a company I use though, which is odd. Have I ordered something and forgotten?! Has...
This is a fun "challenge" from Alex on Wry Writer, who got it from David over at Forking Mad who got it from Zachary Kai (at which point we stop with the Tom Lehrer nonsense!) How many sandwiches do you eat a week? I eat a heck of a lot...
I saw this meme floating around and it hit a nerve. So much AI hate is down to the disproportionate claims about the ability of large language models or "Generative AI". AI as it stands right now it's neither artificial nor intelligent....
2nd February - 8th February I am nursing a hot cup of tea while I wait for the decongestants to kick in, allowing the steam up my nostrils and into my swollen aching sinuses. I don't know if it helps but it feels like I'm doing something...
Contrary to popular belief, Rage isn't banned. King pulled it from print in the late 1990s after it was found in the possessions of several school shooters. Far from glorifying school shooters, King wrote a book about human interaction....
I'm sat in a presentation about "agentic AI" — we're going to construct agents (chains of computer systems) to handle to mindless repetitive grunt work that we all hate doing. In many ways, this sounds amazing. I can tell you the pain...
London-based hard rock three-piece, Calva Louise's "Con Corazon" is a Dead Sara-ish grungey "quiet-verse noisy-chorus" in a grimy basement with a slick af bass — heck of a scream on her! Meanwhile, the latest album –2025's "Edge of the...
From 2nd April 2026, Google is reclassifying as a "data processor" instead of a "data controller" for their reCAPTCHA service — that one where you have to prove you're human by clicking bicycles or school buses or traffic lights. What...
The final book in Cooper's epic The Dark is Rising Sequence ties all of the loose ends up neatly in a quite satisfying way that doesn't feel forced. There's a lovely twist towards the end that plucks a heartstring or two but I won't...