Hi! I'm Ryan, and I build products with a focus on privacy and ethical design.

The Corgi is my
rubber duck debugger.

Fri 20 November 2020 9 minutes

What Melee Gave Me

A game that means more to me than I could possibly convey.

#FreeMelee #Personal

Sun 15 March 2020 2 minutes

You Did Not EARN IT

Petition your Representatives to vote against the EARN IT act.

#encryption #privacy #politics

Wed 01 January 2020 4 minutes

Wobbling in Rust

Writing slightly dangerous code in Rust that (literally, mostly) will not die.

#rust #programming

Thu 01 August 2019 1 minute

Automatic Old Reddit Redirect Safari Extension

Miss the old Reddit in Safari? This extension can help.

#apple #safari #reddit

Wed 05 June 2019 3 minutes

On Sign-In with Apple

An amazing product with features many seem to be missing.

#apple #privacy

Wed 15 May 2019 2 minutes

One Last Ride

Redesigning a personal website is a personal hell.

#life #personal

Thu 07 March 2019 3 minutes

Vim, ALE, Docker, and Per-Project Linting

How to make ALE use python/flake8 in Docker without running Vim over SSH.

#vim #docker #python

Mon 18 February 2019 1 minute

Rust, Cargo, lcrypto/OpenSSL, Mac, and You

OpenSSL on Mac is a weird mess, and it can make compiling Rust programs annoying. This is a short guide to help.

#rust #openssl #encryption #mac

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Ryan around the Web

A "why does Slippi lag for me?" with the age old "no hardware or setup details at all, please just figure this out".

Absolute. Gold. 18 hours ago
@Sneakyness Yup, the clone is an Rc - reference counted single threaded owned further up the stack. Arc is the multi-threaded variant. 2 days ago
Alright, after a bit of digging around with NSMenuItem and figuring out why it wasn't releasing, finally hit an acceptable-ish API for context menus in list view rows in #rustlang.

For a very, very messy example... 2 days ago
Alright an amusing Cocoa (Carbon?) question: Does NSMenu:removeAllItems do some trickery behind the scenes?

I ask, given the "more efficient" line in the method description. 2 days ago
RT @jscott9799 anyone in the owings mills area be on the lookout 2 days ago
RT @joonlee Jeremy Lin: “Being a 9-year NBA veteran doesn’t protect me from being called ‘coronavirus’ on the court.” facebook.com/14565053545840… 2 days ago
@andrearene Make sure you turn off the feature that auto-records photos/videos for things like trophies. Found it took up 10GB+ for me the other day, blew me away.

Doesn't solve the issue but can definitely help. IMO it should not be on by default.

Settings > Captures/Broadcasts > Trophies 2 days ago
RT @alvarombedoya For years, people knew that ICE could search the addresses of the customers of 80 gas, water, electric, phone, and cable companies.

But no one has known how ICE gets that data, or the companies who are sharing it.

Our new technologist, @NinaLWang, seems to have figured it out. twitter.com/GeorgetownCPT/… 2 days ago
RT @Quicktake WATCH: 8 Russian diplomats and their families used a hand-car to cross the border from North Korea to return home as rail service between the 2 countries was suspended due to the pandemic 2 days ago
RT @lorenzofb Here's an old profile of Saud al-Qahtani, the man who purchased Hacking Team spyware, and was a member of Hack Forums.

vice.com/en/article/kzj… twitter.com/jsrailton/stat… 2 days ago
Mmm, I'm not sure this needs another crate to solve the issue - can you pass an Fn(u64) down, and instead of calling pbr.set, call that?

Then, for example, the bin/ example could create a progressbar, and just pass a callback to update it. on init_add_porgressbar a week ago
So you want to edit src/bin/main.rs to do any actual ProgressBar creation/update calls. src/transfer.rs (and any other files) should really just have a reporting mechanism so that any higher level progress bar can reflect it.

You could expose this with a channel, I think - or maybe just take a callback method like Fn(progress) that fires, and any handler can then update however necessary. on init_add_porgressbar 2 weeks ago