Ryan Cao

Blog

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

  1. Kimi Antonelli and Titanium Dioxide: A Quantitative Analysis

    f1 statistics scripting

    · 7 min · 497 reads

  2. Five Years of Design

    web update reflection photography

    · 5 min · 708 reads

  3. A Corepack by Any Other Name

    javascript rust terminal

    · 6 min · 3,139 reads

  4. Ephemeral Permissions Considered Beneficial

    privacy

    · 5 min · 613 reads

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

    nix scripting terminal

    · 4 min · 3,546 reads

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

    web performance

    · 4 min · 1,356 reads

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

    web performance

    · 4 min · 445 reads

  8. A Long Way to Nix

    nix

    · 5 min · 1,099 reads

  9. Setting Up My VPS with Docker Compose and Traefik

    devops self-hosting

    · 8 min · 9,258 reads

  10. How I Deleted a Production Database Cluster

    reflection

    · 5 min · 781 reads

  11. Tracking Subscriptions with Notion

    notion productivity

    · 3 min · 1,192 reads

  12. How I Follow the News with RSS

    rss self-hosting

    · 3 min · 1,531 reads

  13. Why I Use Eleventy

    web javascript eleventy

    · 4 min · 2,211 reads

  14. Redesign & Optimizations on v5

    update web performance eleventy javascript

    · 3 min · 574 reads

  15. Reflections on Qt

    reflection cpp

    · 3 min · 619 reads

  16. Inside a Minecraft Launcher

    minecraft

    · 8 min · 7,016 reads

  17. Building a Unsplash Downloader with Deno

    deno javascript scripting

    · 3 min · 661 reads

  18. The Web Renaissance

    web

    · 4 min · 261 reads

  19. Notion in Web Development

    web notion

    · 2 min · 347 reads

  20. A Complete Guide to Rewrites on the Web

    web vercel

    · 3 min · 1,688 reads

  21. What is IIFE?

    javascript

    · 2 min · 288 reads

  22. Responsive Images with Eleventy & Sharp

    web eleventy performance javascript

    · 5 min · 857 reads

  23. Vercel as a Framework

    web vercel javascript

    · 7 min · 1,203 reads

  24. Data Fetching with Next.js

    web javascript react nextjs

    · 6 min · 1,781 reads