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 noticed that every time I removed images from my local device using 'Free up data', any of those images I had imported into Obsidian would disappear! This is how to fix that!
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There are some websites I come back to time and time again. This is one of them; randomuser.me
I learned today that Steve Harwell of Smash Mouth died
North Wales, trepidation, and obscene sandwiches
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[The Government] like it when starry-eyed working-class kids who were told they were gifted in school have their optimism snuffed out as they step into the real world and find meaningful opportunities non-existent. This teaches kids to...
There are some websites I come back to time and time again. This is one of them; coolors.co
One thing that’s worth remembering. The pandemic proved that states can meaningfully change the lives of people, providing massive resources to make change happen. They will make us pay for this. Not because there’s somehow a real debt...
There are some websites I come back to time and time again. This is one of them; placedog.net
Replacing costly libraries with native APIs is one of my favourite things to do.
In my experience, 95% of all VC funded competitors in our areas will vanish when you are playing the long-term game and just wait long enough. The other 5% will become so expensive that they end up as enterprise systems for a very...
I hate technology but I like breakfast
Several years ago at Microsoft, I saw an observation that there were 3 primary business models in big tech… — Dare Obasanjo
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