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Ryan Townsend
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Technology Leader & Distinguished Software Engineer • 20+ YOE in Tech, 10+ as CTO • Public Speaker • LessonsofaCTO.com
It also came through pretty amusingly in Feedbin 😅
January 14, 2026 at 7:24 PM
This looks great! FYI there's a broken Markdown link under the progressive enhancement section:
January 14, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Love your new insights section! Mainly because it's glazing me more and more every week 😅
January 11, 2026 at 10:42 AM
This is very cool: the app you use to configure the keyboard (remap keys etc) is a web app 🎉 🎉 🎉

Sadly, it's Chromium-only as it relies on the USB API which is unsupported in Safari & Firefox 😔
January 8, 2026 at 1:39 PM
It came with some freebie custom keycaps... is this duck typing? 🤔
January 8, 2026 at 1:23 PM
✅ First completely necessary purchase of the year: a ceramic keyboard
January 8, 2026 at 1:23 PM
The only commit checks out.
December 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Hello from 3200m, -15°c

📍Les Deux Alpes glacier
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
You’ve given me the curse too now 😭
November 20, 2025 at 9:36 AM
When you have poor signal, the Bluesky app becomes more true to its name.
November 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
In my opinion, any SWE writing client-side JavaScript has a responsibility to understand the Event Loop.

@jakearchibald.com’s ‘In The Loop’ talk is required watching: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOL...

(cited by @andydavies.me at #perfnow)
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
“~200 bytes of JavaScript that can wreck your performance” – @andydavies.me explaining download size doesn’t always correlate to runtime performance at #perfnow

#webperf
October 31, 2025 at 9:16 AM
“What happens when you want to center a div in Chrome?” — @michael-hladky.bsky.social at #perfnow

This would make a great interview question that would give a variety of different answers.

#webperf
October 30, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Northern UK developers: join us tonight in Manchester for a talk on scaling to support hundreds of millions in client transaction volume.

It contains a lot of framework-agnostic advice, so non-Ruby developers stand to learn a thing or two too!
October 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Exactly the response I had when I went last year, “holy shit, the photos don’t lie!” Unreal.
October 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Is this mob programming?
October 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The #1 reason to upgrade to iOS 26… particularly in the UK, spam has been epidemic recently.
September 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
At Goodwood, the Red Bull team did so many doughnuts in that electric Ford that the cabin filled with smoke and they had to open the door to let it out 😅
September 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I didn't ask, but... cool? Just generate the CLI command please.
August 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
My friends over at RUMvision.com have sent me a lovely gift. I think my boys love it as much as I do, though they are mostly interested in fighting over occupation of the box.

Thank you @jordyscholing.bsky.social, @erwinhofman.bsky.social and @karlijnlowik.bsky.social ❤️
August 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
HMU if you want any photos from Goodwood I have… a few.
July 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Don't make me point at the sign.
July 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Dua Lipa took a passenger ride in her green & red liveried GT3RS.

Definitely damaged my hearing spectating from the flint wall section behind the hay bales 🥲

Unfortunately I didn’t notice my shutter speed was too high so the cars in these photos look static except the Pagani.
July 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Fun to see a variant of my car ripping it up and down all day as the course car.

Porsche had their 1 of 1 Sonderwunsch 911 (993) Speedster at the stand.
July 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM
🏁 Any car nerds in my network?

I just got back from my first Goodwood Festival of Speed.

Witnessed some utterly incredible vehicles many of which worth more than my house.
July 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM