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

The Corgi is my
rubber duck debugger.

Wed 15 September 2021 2 minutes

DriverKit, /Applications, and Quarantine

Your app is in /Applications, but DriverKit says it's not? It might be quarantined.

#programming #apple #macos #driverkit

Thu 24 June 2021 2 minutes

Debugging Broken Signed/Notarized Apps on macOS

Sealed resource is missing or broken? Find out why.

#programming #apple #macos

Thu 10 June 2021 8 minutes

Cacao: Building macOS (and iOS) Apps in Rust

You can pry Objective-C out of my cold, dead hands.

#programming #rust #apple #macos #ios

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

Sat 07 December 2019 6 minutes

Decoupling, or: where's my data?

Couple was an app for significant others to chat with. It's 2019 - where's the data?

#privacy #ios #android

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

Looking for Older Pieces?

I've been writing (professional and... not so much) since about 2005. Check out the Archives for a full list of pieces.

Ryan around the Web

RT @KenRoth Two videos show Russian paratroopers march eight men at gunpoint along a street in the Ukrainian town of Bucha just moments before apparently executing them -- another horrible war crime. It may be possible to identify the perpetrators for prosecution. nytimes.com/2022/05/19/wor… an hour ago
@anxiousoryx @marcan42 Ha, fair enough! Just hadn't heard the name in awhile, thought it was all VSCode. 2 hours ago
@marcan42 The only question I have: isn't Atom superseded by VSCode at this point?

(Consider me ignorant) 2 hours ago
@hawkun long 6 hours ago
Well, now we know why he's suddenly voting Republican. twitter.com/KeithOlbermann… 8 hours ago
@bentlegen I still remember going to the first one in DC 9 hours ago
RT @derekpowell I need some help finding my mom, who is still missing. An eyewitness saw her at @McDonalds. He gave identifying details specific to her.

Only McDonald’s won’t let my brother and me look at the footage to verify this.

Can you ask them (politely) to let family see the tape? a day ago
Ran into a perfect use-case for const generics tonight. Can't wait for them to fully land in #rustlang.

Thankfully I have an easy workaround for now, but damn if it won't be cleaner with 'em. a day ago
>You have to flip the car over to charge it twitter.com/VRScout/status… a day ago
@cnkeats This + lack of comments.

I legitimately don't need any more fixes except those two. a day ago
Ah, yeah - use the airyx branch, a lot of overhaul was done there. Examples should all work - I really need to merge it and bump to a 0.3, just been super busy and not many are using this crate at the moment to where it's been urgent. on Fix hello world example 2 weeks ago
No, it's a key used for encrypting things like session data and so on. If you have Python installed, you can do something like:
```
python -c "import secrets; print(secrets.token_urlsafe())"
```
to generate one. on bad master key length: expected >= 32 bytes, found 4 2 weeks ago