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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Happy February! Here are a few photos from my phone from the last month with neither rhyme nor reason to the theme. Thanks for reading this post via RSS! Let me know your thoughts by sending me an email: rss@thomasrigby.com.
26th January - 1st February Storm Chandra hit this week bringing a stupid amount of wind and rain. We were issued with a severe weather warning; snow is predicted but no ice which is good because fuck ice. One lunchtime, I went for a...
I am a fan of software that does one thing well. I also have a tendency to use Todoist for pretty much anything because two opposing things can be true at once. Todoist is brilliant and amazing and so easy to use that I find myself using...
Since I moved out of the city centre I often miss the opportunity to photograph the bustling streets and unique architecture of my adopted hometown. I often use mandatory office days as an excuse to take my camera and wander around on my...
Fresh for 2026, "The Weight of Sound" from Crystal Lake is classic metalcore; breakneck galloping rhythm session, demonic vocals, technical guitar, touches of synth/effects. Somewhat of a tune in there. From its piano ballad intro, "Coma...
Flow charts and diagrams are not as fun as interactive prototypes, but they’re much more important to get right Nic Chan As a technologist, a large part of my job is making flow charts and diagrams to help inform design decisions. And...
19th January - 25th January We handed over a project to a client this week. The IT department confirmed receipt of the dashboard files and said the installation had gone live without a hitch. Amazing work! Congratulatory emails and back...
I'm always a sucker for German-language folk metal and Versengold do not disappoint. "Klabauterfrau" tells the jovial yet heartbreaking story of being in love with a Selkie. Or something. "KILLER QUEEN" by Skars reminds me of 1980s hair...
Over the Christmas break, a time of consumption for the sake of commerce, I found myself thinking of all the brand spanking new tat destined for landfill after, at best, one use. I buy decent quality stuff secondhand whenever possible...
We had a guest speaker at work today; a very learned man with a very interesting talk. This is not about that per se. In the Q&A section at the end, he mentioned the overwhelmingly positive and utopian future we are destined to live in —...
On a photo walk to test out my new Minolta SRT303, I clocked this composition out of the corner of my eye. The 53mm Rokkor lens does not connect to the in built light meter so this whole walk was metred by eye. I don't think I did too...
12th January - 18th January The robins are in full throat. It sounds like 40,000 of them singing the same song at slightly different times; none of it syncs up and the effect is jarring. The dawn chorus, magical as it is, naught but a...
5th January - 11th January The first week back at work is over! A few drinks later and the hectic pace is a dull memory; until Monday morning rolls around. I made a big list before I finished for Christmas of the critical things I needed...
29th December - 4th January In a quirk of calendular mathematics, this is simultaneously week 1 of 2026 and week 53 of 2025. I celebrated New Year's Eve with a ceilidh, a beer, and a takeaway with my family. The ceilidh was amazing; so...
On my homepage, I have a carousel of what I call "testimonials" — some nice things lovely people said about me over the years. For the longest time, I'd pick one from the array to display at build time. As part of my work to reduce build...