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Hi, I'm Ryan Wold 👋

from Vacaville, California.

These are notes to myself.

Sorta like a sketchbook.

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

Click around, and let me know what you think 💭

Building

  • Adaptics Building · platonic thoughtshapes and non-geographical maps

  • Afomi Building · Client work

  • 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.

  • Bookmark de-duplicator Building · A script that reads exported Chrome bookmarks, identifies duplicates, and removes them.

  • Bookshelf logo

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

  • Breathe Building · Navy seal breathing technique.

  • Carpacity Building · Dynamic behavior of traffic simulations.

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

  • Collaborative Markup Building · Collaborating on crafting legislation using git-based workflows

  • 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

  • Document and Image Viewing Building · Search, index, and display stored documents and images

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

  • Entries logo

    Entries Building · Basically, my blog.

  • Geo Building · Displaying shapefiles and geojson on maps

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

  • Graphvizzle Building · A Jekyll site that drew graphs with viz.js and graphviz.js libraries.

  • 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.

  • Images logo

    Images Building · A collection of phone-snapped images, no filters

  • Infosynth Building · Information synthesis experiments

  • Interface Building · Assorted explorations with web libraries

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

  • Juggle Tasks Building · A vertical scroller for stacking tasks across days, weeks, and months

  • Jurisdictional logo

    Jurisdictional Building · A unified interface to government

  • Kindle Highlights logo

    Kindle Highlights Building · Highlights and notes from my Kindle books.

  • 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

  • Nag Building · An app that asks what you've been doing, every 15 minutes.

  • 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

  • Nonprofits Building · A tool to connect nonprofits in a local area

  • Ogenda Building · Open agendas for public meetings

  • Open Housing Application Building · An open-source housing application

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

  • Open-source Architecture Building · Exploring open-source principles applied to architecture

  • 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

  • Park and Recreation Trust Building · Website and content for a local parks and recreation trust

  • Parsing CSS logo

    Parsing CSS Building · Parsing and visualizing CSS to quickly assess a body of styles

  • Personafy Building · An easy, conventional way to track and develop Personas in and across product teams

  • Personal Building · Personal musings, notes, and projects

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

  • Pixels Building · Analyze raster images and re-create with paint

  • Polisee.org Building · Visualizing policy

  • Poller Building · Online cron jobs and automated polling for websites

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

  • Qart logo

    Qart Building · Peer-to-peer commerce

  • Quotes Building · Me keeping a list of quotes

  • Real-time Bus Schedules logo

    Real-time Bus Schedules Building · Show the next 3 Muni buses on a dashboard.

  • Restingware Building · Software for cemetery management.

  • RPMS Building ·

  • Satoshi Papers Building · Highlighting Satoshi's Work

  • schoren.com Building · Long ago, I made the website for a local networking firm.

  • Serial Limited logo

    Serial Limited Building · Limited-run shirt designs via TeeSpring

  • Shepherd of the Hills Preschool - Vacaville, CA logo

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

  • Simona Padilla-Scholtens 2006 Campaign Building · Branding, mailers, and website for 2006 Solano County Auditor-Controller election.

  • 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

  • Teleport Building · P2P video conferencing using WebRTC and open standards

  • Timeline Building · Temporally tracking life events

  • Timemapping Building · Trying to visualize the time as a dimension.

  • Tone Building · Vibes, binaural beats.

  • Touchpoints Building · Service modeling and User feedback

  • Turnkey Building · A bot that sits inside a network, collects, and scrubs information. Versions it, using .git, for accountability.

  • Unit.works Building · Software for little boxes 🎶

  • Vacaville Magazine Building · Converting a community event calendar to an open, shareable format

  • Visible DAO logo

    Visible DAO Building · Experimenting with Transparency in the market

  • Wardley.app logo

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

  • Winnow logo

    Winnow Building · A Chrome extension that moves tabs between windows.

  • Workflow Building · Business Process Models, Business Process Management, BPMN

  • Workflow Magnets Building · Physical workflow magnets for mapping business processes

  • Yoga Building · Yoga poses and sequences

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

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man.

Edwin Markham
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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.