Welcome to ryanwold.net

I enjoy creating software and spending time exploring how things are interconnected as systems.

These are mostly notes to myself; working through these thoughts in the open.

• How I work
• Entries
• Projects
  • Agile.pics
  • Breathe
  • Commons
  • Jurisdictional
  • Personafy
  • Personal
  • Wittle
  • Workflow

Notes to myself

• 2x2 Framings
• 4 hypothetical scenarios if a top 20 US bank becomes insolvent on more than $150B of assets
• 5 reasons why open sourcing data is economically viable
• 839 nonprofits in Solano County
• Abstractions (atoms to galaxies)
• A Critique of Object-Oriented Ontologies
• Adding Ember to a Rails 4.2.5 app
• A general checklist for refactoring a CRUD system to an event-driven CQRS system
• agile.pics
• Agile.pics, or Graphvizzle 2.0
• Algorithmic Representation
• Allow people to define solutions to their own problems
• Always-on Hack Night
• Amazon AWS Notes
• Ambient Documentation
• A Mountain of Work
• Anomalisa
• Apache Web Benchmarking Tool
• a Pomodoro Timer with Moment.js
• A proposal for a city ordinance advocating to preferential treatment of cryptocurrency
• Assessing a software product portfolio
• A System to Mint NFTs
• Atomic Design
• A Unified Interface to Government
• AutoScreenshot, a Ruby .gem
• Basic Sketch Slides
• Bitcoin Script
• Blockchain Reactions
• Building a Slack Bot
• Building bigdata apps on AWS
• Building Websites
• Building Wittle/Adaptics
• Build With, Not For
• BusPlease
• Cardano Questions
• Category Theory
• C++ Compilers on the 2nd Gen Macbook Air
• CfA Lunch Discussion with Ron Conway
• Churn - Chrome Browser Extension
• Citizen Participation
• Civic Context
• Cleaning up Code: Removing Unnecessary Rails Helpers
• Clouds
• Cloudshift - as Businesses move to the Cloud
• Code as Law
• Code Notes from when learning Map Reduce with MongoDB
• Code Reference Cheatsheet
• Collaborative Legal Markup
• Communicating Design
• Compiz Grid like Divvy for Mac
• Configuring a Mac
• Considerations for creating and maintaining a website
• control your attention
• Copying MySQL Data and/or Databases between machines
• CPORD Status
• Craft
• Crafting Evolutionary Architecture
• Creating my first Ruby .gem
• Crowdsourcing Data
• Customer Referral Platform
• DataDictionary.org
• Delivering Applications for the Sensored Environment: Physical Web
• DemocracyMap: Use Cases
• Design Your Information
• Developing for Television (Onward toward Ubiquitous Computing)
• Disable same-origin policy in Google Chrome during Development
• Disabling remote .js warnings in Chrome Browser
• DMap Plan
• Douglas Rushkoff at the Commonwealth Club
• Dynamic Modeling
• Elements of a Website
• Elixir Links
• Elixir Notes & Commands
• Ember.js + Firebase
• ESPN for Government
• Evolving your Cloud
• Experience Review: Upgrading Comcast X1 Box
• Exploring Interact.js
• fgieger's youtube channel
• Finding duplicate files with FDupes
• from Apathy to Action
• From Screen Designs to a Working Website
• Funding for Sustainability (Video)
• Generate a Rails app without Turbolinks and Spring
• Getting started with High Fidelity
• Git command: Delete a remote Git repository
• Githubbing
• Github's Git flow (not git-flow)
• Gmail Superstars with Gmail.gem
• Google Apps & Ruby/Rails
• Google Task Shortcut
• GovStats
• Graphing Email Activity over Time
• GTD Workflow Diagram
• Handup
• Handup - Give Directly
• Hebbian associative learning
• Heroku's 1-click Deploy Button
• Hilbert Curves
• Hover DNS Configs for Heroku Apps
• How I use Trello
• How to connect to a VMWare Windows host on OSX Lion
• HOWTO: create a middle dot in html
• How to establish a public data registry
• HOWTO: Install OpenGeo GeoServer on Amazon EC2
• How to parse a public agenda
• how to relax - thich nhat hanh
• How to Stop Time, NY Times
• Ideas are seeds. A startup is a garden.
• IE9 a:active state sticks
• Incorporated!
• Innovation Seeking Stability
• Inspiration
• Installing ElasticSearch on OSX Lion
• Integrated Value Model Poster at IAC 21
• Interests, Graphed
• Interoperable Web Objects
• Introspection, in Ruby
• It'd be nice if...
• Kindle Highlights
• Knowledge Work
• Lean Practices
• Lean Startup Tools & Artifacts
• Let's Encrypt with Pivotal CWF
• Linking OSX Desktop folder to Dropbox
• Looking back at 2015
• Low-res Government
• Machine Learning
• Managing Photos
• Mapping data flow in test specs
• Mapping Ecosystems
• match.com for jobs
• Microinteractions
• Migrating from Google Books to Goodreads
• Migrating from MySQL to PostgreSQL
• Modular Architecture
• Moving a Heroku App to Pivotal Cloud Foundry
• Moving to an IDE
• Muni Bot
• MVC (Model View Controller)
• My Data Workflow
• My Digital Office
• My experience onboarding to an in-flight software project
• My Own Workflow (Automating Screenshots)
• Nag
• Nag Design Notes
• National Data Catalog
• Navigating Current to Desired State
• Neighborly, by e-Democracy.org
• Nonprofit Indicators
• notes from CodeForOakland
• Notes on JWTs - JSON Web Tokens
• Notes on Learning Ember.js
• Notes on Material Design
• Notes on Pivotal Cloud Foundry
• Notes on Service Mapping
• Notes on Solano County finances
• Obituary: Ryan's Student Loan
• On Accounting...
• One Git commit from feature/branch to master
• On the Interoperability of Systems
• OpenArchitectureNetwork
• Open Government
• Openness and New Economics
• Open source business
• Opentecture
• Open vs Closed Markets
• Ordering Disorder
• O'Reilly Open Government
• Organizational and Product Source Code
• Organizational Physics
• Packaging up a TypeScript library for use in a browser
• Paintings
• Palmer Squares West Coast Tour
• People Grouped By
• People + Technology as the base unit in a socio-technical System, like an Organization
• Personal Clothes with 3d Printers
• Personal Heads-up Display
• Personal overflow of ideas
• Personal preferences
• Personal Technologies
• Philosophy
• Physical Constants and Eleven Dimensions
• Pitchdecks are about clear ideas
• Pitching in on an issue on the D3 Google Group mailing list
• Pixel Palettes BSV
• Playing with Firebase
• Playing with Google Speech API
• Playing with Isomer.js
• Playing with Reactables
• Pondering "Bounded Rationality"
• Postgres/Postgis on Amazon RDS
• Product/Business Fit
• Prototyping with Airtable
• Public Information means "Online"
• Python Simple Server
• Quantum key distribution (QKD)
• Quiet Rails database logging
• quote 71
• Quote - Ben Wyatt
• Quote - "Correctness"
• Quote - Time Matters
• Rails ActiveRecord: Polymorphism
• Rainbits
• Remember the Future
• Reminders, when writing
• Removing unnecessary Rails Helpers
• Renaming Bash tabs in OSX
• Research on governance
• Reset Video Camera on Macbook
• Ruby Notes
• Ruby PDF Writer
• Running a post-mortem
• San Francisco STiR Kickoff
• Saving and Loading .json in Three.js
• Scraper Wiki'ing
• Screenshots of Data Portals
• Screenshots on Deploy - A Trail of Design
• Scripting Blender
• Sequence Diagram Template
• Share: Erin Kissane - Little Big Systems
• Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church
• Sketching-up a Desk
• Slack Introduction
• Slides from Exponential Orgs
• Slides: The Design Pipeline - or Continuous Design
• Snapshots
• Social complexity + Technical complexity
• Social Media
• Spacemouse Tinkercad
• Squashing Commits
• Squeezing the tube of toothpaste. But for knowledge work.
• Standard data and Schema.org
• Startup
• State, as a first level derivative
• Strategy
• Student Lottery "App"
• Styleguides
• Sunlight and Thunderstorms
• Systemic Dependencies for Public Service
• Take a Cue
• TaxTracker.org
• Teaching Methods
• Thank you _unwriter
• The Fullest-stack
• The relatively small surface area of nonprofits limit impact
• The right data tool for the job
• Thin Slices
• This Site is Made With
• Timeline: the history of MoreQuality
• Timelining
• Total Cost of Ownership
• Toward Strongly-typed Organizational Ontologies
• Tracking taxes
• Trello Hacks - Migrating Card Activity comments to Cards
• Typescript
• Understanding Unfunded Pension Liability
• Unity3d
• Up and Running with Elixir
• Upgrading BitcoinSV Node 1.06 to 1.0.7.beta
• Use Helium.js to identify Unused CSS
• User-centered Design Postcards from CfA
• Using a custom database in Rails in a rake task
• Using Stripe for Payments
• Vacaville City Council - Public Comment
• Visual Documentation
• Visualizing Enrollment Data
• Visualizing Personal Finances
• Visualizing the effect of businesses in communities
• Walking through the Ember ToDo App
• Wardley Map Template
• Website Design Process
• What are the public costs to generate public revenue?
• What does agile feel like?
• What is Service Design?
• What's does the most transparent city look like?
• When using Rails, ensure uniqueness at the data-store level
• Working asynchronously
• Working toward Data Standards
• Working with the US Code of Law
• Work Samples

The Somewhat Recent

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