Hi, I'm Richard Thombs
I'm a developer and have been ever since I got my first computer back in 1982 (a BBC model "A"). I've beaten Colossal Cave, dabbled in a bit of MUD and even helped email addresses change from ! to @.
Recent posts
Founding TeamHaven
A retrospective on founding TeamHaven2/19/2026Designing an asynchronous job processing system for long-running web jobs
Often a website has to process a bulk task that will take too long to run synchronously. This describes one possible architecture for an asynchronous solution using a message queue.3/13/2021How to highlight links to the active route in Next.js
The <Link> component in Next.js doesn't include the ability to highlight links that point to the currently active route. Thankfully it is easy to create a component that does.3/5/2021