Author: Ryan Neudorf

  • My Coding Origin Story

    My Coding Origin Story

    Earlier today Ben Halpern posted a bit about his coding origin story on dev.to. I thought it might be interesting to share how I got my start. Growing my family was not an early computer adopter. Computers were expensive and my parents were endlessly frugal. So I don’t share the common origin story for a…


  • SQRL Poised To Save Us From Password Hell

    A few times every decade we get to witness the emergence of a truly revolutionary back-end technology breakthrough. I recall following OpenID in the mid-00’s, reading some of the early discussion groups and blog posts, eventually watching it become supplanted by OAuth. Which would go on to drastically simplify the way most people log in…


  • Brass & Bass, Strava, FFVPN – The greatest things of all time… This Week…

    B-Complex – Beautiful Lies (Riot Jazz Brass Band Cover) Yeah, yeah, I know jazz band covers are one of those things that high school band nerds get all obsessed with, but whatever! Riot Jazz Brass Band’s cover of this Drum & Bass track is a real earworm (I’m calling this Brass & Bass). I’ve also…


  • Cycling, Javascript and Saving the Planet

    A few weeks ago I bought a basic road bike with the intention of cycling to work. And I’m totally hooked! Addicted maybe? I think I finally get it. My primary reason for biking to work is to level up the amount of exercise I get in every week, but I’m aware that leaving the…


  • Three of the greatest things of all time… this week…

    This past week I’ve made three minor tech-adjacent discoveries that have the potential to change my life in small but important ways. None of these are groundbreaking on their own, but together they’re actually making me a little excited about “tech” again. In sort of a strange way. Stoop I’ve always had two related problems…