• Forget Europe. Montréal est Magnifique!

    Forget Europe. Montréal est Magnifique!

    aka “Oh look, Ryan went to another city and rode a bike. How original!” Bicycle people often cite European cities when advocating for more equatable transportation options in our North American cities – Amsterdam as the obvious world leader in cycling infrastructure, maybe Copenhagen, Paris for how quickly they’ve transformed their city or Oulu when […] Continue Reading


  • Why would you want to drive behind a slow cyclist?

    Why would you want to drive behind a slow cyclist?

    Whenever I’m engaged in a conversation and the other party is saying something that doesn’t resonate with me, something I don’t get or something that just seems strange, I make an honest effort to put myself in the other person’s shoes. I do research, thought experiments, bounce scenarios off friends, hypothesize with LLMs, etc. I […] Continue Reading


  • Random Factoids I Learned Last Year

    In September of last year, I started recording random information I had never known about. My criteria for recording this fact was basically “will I want to be reminded about this in the future.” I didn’t set out with a plan for these facts beyond recording them in a notes document. But heck, if I […] Continue Reading


  • A Case for Webrings in a Post-Social Internet

    How’s that for a headline for the first post of a new year! Webrings hold a special place in my memories of the late-90s early internet. For those who never encountered one, or weren’t around back then, webrings were an early tool for content discovery. In the pre-Google and social media era, finding content — […] Continue Reading


  • WordCamp US 2023

    WordCamp US 2023

    I attended my first WordCamp US this year and it was great! The Travel WCUS 2023 was held in National Harbor, Maryland. It was my first time visiting the DC area. DC is such a well documented and important city that I felt like I knew exactly what to expect and it delivered. Basically to […] Continue Reading