Katherine Villyard

Goodbye, Blink.

by Katherine Villyard | Apr 12, 2013 | web

I used to do web development. In Cold Fusion, a lot of the time. Cold Fusion is a language with tags that usually start with CF, like “<cf_query>”. We had a customer who kept asking for the text to be bright red, huge, and blinking. (Not for the...

Obituary spam

by Katherine Villyard | Feb 18, 2013 | web

There is a special circle of hell for people who spam obituaries. As it turns out, I have a modest talent for obituaries. (Also job references, and for the same reason: I’m good at finding unique good things about people and saying them.) Unfortunately, I...