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Ryan Cao.
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Blog

Ramblings about software development, privacy, and whatever happens to strike my fancy.

  1. Five Years of Design

    web update reflection photography

    · 5 min · 372 reads

  2. A Corepack by Any Other Name

    javascript rust terminal

    · 6 min · 1,294 reads

  3. Ephemeral Permissions Considered Beneficial

    privacy

    · 5 min · 361 reads

  4. Where Did My Colorful Home Manager Logs Go? Debugging Ghostty and Sudo

    nix scripting terminal

    · 4 min · 1,863 reads

  5. Performance Tales, Part 2: A Robust Web Font Loading Strategy

    web performance

    · 4 min · 929 reads

  6. Performance Tales, Part 1: Why So Performant?

    web performance

    · 4 min · 352 reads

  7. A Long Way to Nix

    nix

    · 5 min · 953 reads

  8. Setting Up My VPS with Docker Compose and Traefik

    devops self-hosting

    · 8 min · 8,037 reads

  9. How I Deleted a Production Database Cluster

    reflection

    · 5 min · 659 reads

  10. Tracking Subscriptions with Notion

    notion productivity

    · 3 min · 1,110 reads

  11. How I Follow the News with RSS

    rss self-hosting

    · 3 min · 1,398 reads

  12. Why I Use Eleventy

    web javascript eleventy

    · 4 min · 2,018 reads

  13. Redesign & Optimizations on v5

    update web performance eleventy javascript

    · 3 min · 457 reads

  14. Reflections on Qt

    reflection cpp

    · 3 min · 432 reads

  15. Inside a Minecraft Launcher

    minecraft

    · 8 min · 5,326 reads

  16. Building a Unsplash Downloader with Deno

    deno javascript scripting

    · 3 min · 553 reads

  17. The Web Renaissance

    web

    · 4 min · 204 reads

  18. Notion in Web Development

    web notion

    · 2 min · 278 reads

  19. A Complete Guide to Rewrites on the Web

    web vercel

    · 3 min · 1,430 reads

  20. What is IIFE?

    javascript

    · 2 min · 231 reads

  21. Responsive Images with Eleventy & Sharp

    web eleventy performance javascript

    · 5 min · 758 reads

  22. Vercel as a Framework

    web vercel javascript

    · 7 min · 1,055 reads

  23. Data Fetching with Next.js

    web javascript react nextjs

    · 6 min · 1,685 reads