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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Some things I would consider critical aren't possible in Figma yet are in CSS.
Ten random songs from my collection
We purchased some goods from a well-known online retailer the other day. They arrived in a surprisingly bad state for a giant global logistics company…
There are usually two choices when you need functional code to complete a task — import a package or write your own.
If your goal is to make as much money as quickly as possible without any commitment to long-term sustainability, you don't ask the hard questions, and you don't listen when other people do. — Dana Fried
Hey knitters! Look! The thing you didn't know you needed but 100% need!
New coffee, old memories, and impending sweater weather
Brevity has its place, but asides and conversational style and inconclusive ponderings all have their value too. At the very least, they feel like they are written by humans for other humans, instead of by influencers for the algorithm...
Sometimes I want to grab some stuff from a website and it's quicker to write a script to do it than format copypasta.
Ten random songs from my collection
Someone online recently was quite disparaging of me working for Big Pharma which prompted me to write this explanation.
There are some websites I come back to time and time again. This is one of them; cubic-bezier.com
My other half gave a talk on user experience in the complex world of pharmaceutical communications.
API calls take time and cost money, not to mention the environmental impact. Here's how to reduce the number of requests in a simple crawl function.
Last week I posed this simple question. Here are the answers, analysis, and my conclusion.