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

Sigh twitter.com/PublishersWkly… 2 days ago
@matthew_d_green @chton That "use without internet" is often (IME) very useful when you need to be connected to the network to make your way to a login/gateway that doesn't auto-prompt - usually airplane wifi, for me.

It is somehow still badly worded all these years later tho. 4 days ago
@jeffbcraven They also co-own the best videogame stores in Seattle. 6 days ago
@brianleroux A movie remake of Good Will Hunting, but it's for the modern era and it's this instead of visiting the Sistine Chapel

I mean, they're remaking everything else anyway a week ago
@TMobileHelp what Seattle area stores can still service Sprint devices? You all seemingly removed Sprint support from the stores before the shutoff, then disabled SIM cards... so it's like, impossible to switch now. a week ago
@nadiaoxford I know people here in WA who've gone this route and it's been life changing for their conditions. 2 weeks ago
@paperwaspnest This could fit a number of NewGrounds bits for you lol
1. years. Jeez.
2 weeks ago
RT @iblametom NEW and only in The Wiretap - AT&T has the ability to track the location of a car with just its VIN.

It appears to be a relatively new capability, though not much different from tracking with an IMEI.

However, it shows just how many ways cops can grab car location data. 2 weeks ago
So glad I run my company on (mostly) @mercury. Hedge a bit elsewhere but man the SVB stuff is crazy to watch. 2 weeks ago
@steipete I've often wondered why competing messenger apps don't fork Telegram and see about keeping a large chunk of the UI and using their own API layer instead. 2 weeks ago
Huh. Are you using cacao for that Mastodon app you've been hacking on? I saw it linked awhile ago and had it bookmarked to check up on...

At a glance this looks good but I need to sit down later today after I've had coffee. Appreciate it! on This adds minimal support for NSPopover in AppKit 3 weeks ago
A hack workaround for this at the moment is to write your String to a file, then just direct Chrome to load the file ([file:///...](file:///...`)). I've used this for ages now for screenshot generation. on Render content from string a month ago