Thomas Cannon

@tcannonfodder
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Web developer, writer, semi-pro party mom. +3 to Persistence Rolls. Operations & systems nerd
Personal Sitehttps://thomascannon.me
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Into the gap

It is right that the murder of many people be mourned and lamented.

A Working Library
Thomas Cannon - Balsamiq Pricing

Balsamiq going per-editor seating feels like a fundamental misunderstanding of what makes it so useful as a tool. It’s designed for ANYONE to be able to use it. And, especially for small teams, you want folks to have the ability to experiment & grow! Seat-babysitting is inherently a restrictive behavior, leading to worse outcomes. Especially in the wireframing stage. They’ve essentially created a keycard system, where only the chosen few can make actual product decisions.

What a farce; and even more damning of the continually manufactured consent around LLMs. Burn it all down

https://css-tricks.com/googles-prompt-api/

Google’s Prompt API | CSS-Tricks

Mat Marquis on Google pulling the web standards equivalent of U2 album marketing:

CSS-Tricks

"A poem, or a novel, is not a puzzle to solve. It’s an experience to enjoy and think about. And there’s no answer key for that."

https://buttondown.com/annleckie/archive/book-event-for-radiant-star-next-wednesday/

Book Event for Radiant Star Next Wednesday!

Are you in St Louis? Will you be, next week? In that case, you could come to the Schlafly Public Library at 225 N. Euclid at 6pm on Wednesday May 13th. Full...

Vanburen's Fitness Tips

I wrote about Blue Ridge Ruby 2026, which I didn’t realize how much I needed, and where I gave my second talk.

https://microblog.thomascannon.me/2026/05/03/blue-ridge-ruby.html

Thomas Cannon - Blue Ridge Ruby 2026

Below are some of my rambling notes, I’m still paying off The Conference Tax for being gone for so long. The true heroes of conferences are the folks who hold the fort down at home 🫡🫡🫡. An A+ Schedule You should watch all of them, in order (don’t skip the lightning talks either!) Jeremy, Joe, and Mark created a fantastic schedule. It had a clear, authorial intent with a proper cadence.

The true heroes of conferences are the folks who hold the fort down at home 🫡🫡🫡

spicy opinion:

one of the most disrspectful things you can do as a presenter, to your audience, is stand up in front of them and do a talk with a 100% ai generated slide deck.

you couldnt even take the time to build your own deck out, and we're supposed to take you seriously? you didnt care enough to build your own deck, so why should the audience give a shit about it?

its just a sociopathic/narcisistic play to get on stage and be in the spotlight for a moment. and its super obvious.

boo.

Thomas Cannon -

I was just trying to look up teardowns of EWIs, and YouTube decided to drag my ass in the harshest way possible.