Ryan articles - 15 total
How can I volunteer my extra time while self-isolating due to COVID-19?
My place of work has made the decision to implement working from home starting tomorrow. And most of...
Services Should Help Us Remember
With the beginning of a new year decade everybody is posting retrospectives on anything and everythin...
Do you delete Git branches?
At my place of employment we use Jira ticket numbers in our git branches so that we can take advantag...
My Coding Origin Story
Earlier today Ben Halpern posted a bit about his coding origin story on dev.to. I thought it might be...
What are your thoughts on functional programming? In PHP?
A friend of mine introduced me to the concept of functional programming this weekend. As someone who'...
SQRL Poised To Save Us From Password Hell
A few times every decade we get to witness the emergence of a truly revolutionary back-end technology...
Cycling, Javascript and Saving the Planet
A few weeks ago I bought a basic road bike with the intention of cycling to work. And I’m totally hoo...
Three of the greatest things of all time… this week…
This past week I’ve made three minor tech-adjacent discoveries that have the potential to change my l...
How to receive email in 2019?
I have an idea for a project which has a component that involves receiving and processing email. I'...
Dev.to: The most Pleasant Online Community.
Earlier this year, the developer centric social network DEV started popping up regularly in the porti...
Teaching Kids to Code
My oldest kid (currently age 11) has expressed an interest in learning to code for a while. I've trie...
Do performance reviews have to suck?
Most developers universally agree that performance reviews (and the related salary negotiations) suck...
Notifications were stressing me out before it was cool
File under the "go figure" category: I found this old blog post from July 2008 only a couple of week...
Why are paywalls so weak?
As part of my day job I've been investigating (soft) paywall implementation. As I poke at various i...
Is Modern Web Development Too Complex?
As someone who has been in the industry for nearly as long as the industry has existed, the trajector...