Tue Jul 22
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 were able to get much closer …
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 officially pronounced as "cute") is software I hold dear to my heart. I have...
a look back at the first year of the blog series "The Future is Federated" and what lies ahead
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 “Day 17” on the first day of the week. ¶ Not sure whether I like R. Crosby's...
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 acknowledges that the idea (and social stratification and skin tone) of merit...
We had a short weekend at the Grand View Lodge in Nisswa, Minnesota. Here are some pictures from that trip.
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 phenomenal game. and i want to say, that i am immensely grateful for all of that. but...
Spending an afternoon building a simple tool that may or may not prove useful in the near or far future.
Oh Amazon. You've finally gone too far. Your horrible business practices have forces me to quit using your services. For years I've been a happy user of eReaders and thus eBooks. For years I did not mind getting them from an evil corporation bent on the destruction of the book selling industry. I used to download...
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 find myself thinking I’d use it for new projects at this point: I believe I have...
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It is hard to pinpoint the exact moment I began wanting to live. It is recent, though I am not. I have been wandering aimlessly and painfully for no particular reason. My existence, though materially comfortable, has been a mystery I never quite managed to untangle. Something odd and perpetually half-rotten. I...
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 Canadian, I felt a sense of optimism that someone had taken on the challenge. As...
“Can you review the articles on thomasrigby.com and tell me what the key themes emerging are?”
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. In the meantime, mobile computing threatens to make the desktop irrelevant. 20...
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, including you, in mind. They knew they were stepping into a shared space, and they...
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 German startup magazine called Stern. Lemm, who later in the article cited AltaVista...