Ryan Wold

Hi, I'm Ryan Wold 👋

from Vacaville, California.

I'm a husband, father, and son. Amateur gardener. Interested in cybernetics, modular design, and how systems work.

These are notes to myself. Sorta like a sketchbook. Click around, and let me know what you think.

Professional

Software engineer and consultant. I help teams ship well-built software, continuously.

Public Service

Better public service delivery has been a thread throughout my career.

Projects

All projects

Building

  • Adaptics Building · platonic thoughtshapes and non-geographical maps

  • Auto Screenshot logo

    Auto Screenshot Building · A ruby .gem that captures screenshots during browser-testing.

  • Bitblocks Building · Bitblocks is an indexer for the bsv blockchain.

  • Bookshelf logo

    Bookshelf Building · A list of books I've read.

  • Breathe Building · Navy seal breathing technique.

  • CityCamp Building · An open, participatory unconference for civic innovation

  • Commons Building · Smarter public spaces

  • CPORD Status Building · 5 states in GTD

  • Cubican Building · A mobile art client.

  • Cyberfolk.org Building · Blog-form thoughts on social implications of cybernetics

  • D3 Experiments Building · Experiments with D3.js data visualizations

  • Eligibility Rules Building · Machine-readable eligibility rules for public services

  • Gov as Platform Building · how civic services, data, and policy connect across layers of government

  • GTD Skill for Claude Code Building · A Claude Code skill suite for Getting Things Done — daily audits, weekly reviews, Trello sync, morning briefings, and cross-project handoffs via .claude/inbox/.

  • Handup Building · Finding "good homes" for household items.

  • Harmonograph Building · Little rhythms

  • HiHat Building · A mobile music client.

  • Infosynth Building · Information synthesis experiments

  • iTermSidebar Building · macOS menubar app that shows iTerm2 windows in a floating sidebar, organized per screen

  • Jurisdictional logo

    Jurisdictional Building · A unified interface to government

  • LiveWallet logo

    LiveWallet Building · BSV Wallet built with Elixir Livebook

  • Loan Calculator logo

    Loan Calculator Building · A tool to comparing the charts of 2 home loans.

  • Modular City Building · An open source website template for cities and public agencies

  • MoreQuality Building · 501(c)(3) public benefit nonprofit

  • Napa Valley Stream Fest Building · Website for a growing media film event in Napa Valley

  • Neighborhood / Building App Building · Software for housing complexes and homeowner's associations

  • Neighbor Shed Building · Share tools and resources with your neighbors

  • NestBridge Building · Coordinating local service providers

  • Ogenda Building · Open agendas for public meetings

  • Open Solano Building · Open-source governance in Solano County

  • Opentecture logo

    Opentecture Building · Open-source modular housing

  • Ourquity Building · Shared community equity models based on good will and abundance

  • Pandigital .gem Building · A Ruby gem for uploading images to a Pandigital photo frame

  • Personal Building · Personal musings, notes, and projects

  • Personal API Building · A personal API for publishing your own open data

  • Polisee.org Building · Visualizing policy

  • Product Cycle Building · User-centered artifacts commonly used when iteratively designing a software product

  • Qart logo

    Qart Building · Peer-to-peer commerce

  • RPMS Building ·

  • Shepherd of the Hills Preschool - Vacaville, CA logo

    Shepherd of the Hills Preschool - Vacaville, CA Building · Website development for a local Christian Preschool

  • Student Lottery logo

    Student Lottery Building · A small web app to conduct a randomized Student Lottery for enrollment.

  • TaxTracker.org logo

    TaxTracker.org Building · An open-source list of taxes

  • Team Bitcoin logo

    Team Bitcoin Building · Bitcoin is for everyone

  • Timeline Building · Temporally tracking life events

  • Tone Building · Vibes, binaural beats.

  • Touchpoints Building · Service modeling and User feedback

  • Visible DAO logo

    Visible DAO Building · Experimenting with Transparency in the market

  • Wardley.app logo

    Wardley.app Building · Value chains are re-shaping rapidly

  • Yoga Building · Yoga poses and sequences

Notes

All notes

Where is my mind?

Let's chat about

  • Open-source software development. I write a lot of software using things others have built and I try to share back when possible. I prefer to work in the open.
  • Bitcoin. Bitcoin is for everyone. I'm a fan of Bitcoin, the Scalable Version. I believe in Satoshi's Vision.
  • Baseball. I grew up playing baseball (SS, P). Walt Weiss era A's fan. Tim Lincecum era Giants fan. Nolan Ryan: the greatest. New fan of Elly de La Cruz.
  • Modular Architecture. Houses should work more like Legos™️. Distributed fab labs in communities can support a paradigm where we can more readily collaborate and evolve our homes.
Random Quote

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

Tim Berners-Lee
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Tiny tools

Small things I built for my own workflows. You might find them useful too!
Image Tool

Cropper

Quickly crop an image to a specific size (good for social media previews)

Visualization D3.js

Sketch Data

A data-driven document for seeing a single dataset in a) freeform or b) projected with defined axes

Identity Open Source

DID Page

Generate a DID (Decentralized Identifier), and generate a Credential, and verify it

Ryan Wold

Want to talk?

If something here sparked a thought, I'd like to hear it. Grab 30 minutes on my calendar, or send me a note. No pitch, just a conversation.

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