Dave Ryan

This version of the future isn't appealing to me.

An old-fashioned typewriter with CMYES! written in a bold typewriter font on the page scrolling up.

Made a Slack :cmyes: emoji today for a dumb thing I sometimes say and will not be apologizing for releasing it into the world wild web 🤷

Crossed a pretty satisfying personal milestone today about 20 months in the making: 24 doses of vaccines to retrain my immune system to be resilient in the modern world post-transplant. Very glad to be done with arm punches for a while, very grateful and fortunate to get them.

AI is going to make mistakes in lots of industries: tech, medicine, food and law. But the irony that people running one of these probably have the technical skills to know better 😅

I'm willing to pay for convenience. Time is precious. Plenty of apps and services I gladly pay for. It's also become convenient to cook right-sized, tailored solutions with workflows, whistles, AI and data where you want them.

Made my own podcast client and todo/grocery SaaS 😎

An impressive feat of engineering 😎! Hope you stayed dry out there 🤘🏻

last year for #cranksgiving i bought and hauled 208lbs of food to the Tempe Community Action Agency Food Panty.

this year i have plans to add a trailer and get over 300lbs.

Put some time on your calendar to start cooking some this-decade CSS 🎉 Using this as a tangential excuse to go have a glass of apple cider 😇🍎

Yep. Officially Friday. Ran fit getch origin just now.

a11y: fix keyboard nav with open on hover by 0aveRyan · Pull Request #3 · OllieWP/ollie-menu-designer Addresses #2. Adds a directive to trigger the dropdown when focused and few JS adjustments. Tested: Open on hover: off. Clicks work. Open on hover: off. Focus works. Open on hover: on, no link (bu...

Put in a small PR to rework the focus logic a bit that I think keeps it working as expected elsewhere and hits this edge case 😎 github.com/OllieWP/olli...

Keyboard navigation into Dropdown Menu's isn't working when Open on hover is enabled · Issue #2 · OllieWP/ollie-menu-designer First, I hate to open an issue because this is SO awesome! EXTREMELY impressive stuff 😎 One issue I found over the weekend was that when Dropdown Menu items are set to Open on hover, you can no lon...

I finally got to play with this while traveling this weekend! Super fun. Found one little thing with keyboard navigation/a11y on Dropdown Menu items github.com/OllieWP/olli...

A beautiful old library with wood shelves and red walls. A yellow poster above the shelves says "make tea not war."

A banner outside a wooden doorway reading Bishopsgate Institute: The UK's largest LGBTQIA+ archive.

John O'Nolan on stage at LoopConf in front of a slide that says "What would be better?"

Thanks to @rzen.net and @humanmade.com for @loopconf.com last week ✨ It was a fantastic, cup-filling event 🌞

Off to @loopconf.com next week 🛫

Xavier Rudd - Follow the Sun | Mahogany Session YouTube video by Mahogany

Dusting off my passport next week for the first time in years—heading to a country I’ve never visited. First season of a fun new job done. Two years post–stem cell transplant; scanned clear of cancer this week. Enjoying brand new moons & brand new suns 🌞 youtu.be/XZf_V_iqvVo?...

Package registries like npm will be remediated 🤷 the real burning question is whether ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot etc. have speedy and reliable processes for un-learning malware once it's in a user's history, in a model, etc... news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4516... 😬

Sometimes when I hit a wall in containers, CSS or compilers I just remind myself I push pixels and PRs not quantum particles or launch planetary positioning instruments 🤓 Keeps me grounded 🌎 https://youtu.be/5zJbE7J3X8I

So many things I could say 😅 I'll just go with.. I never miss that era 😇

After seven years with Newfold Digital today is my last day. Immensely grateful to the people who made those years so rewarding and excited to start some new adventures next week!

PressConf Recap: Why Showing Up Matters in the WordPress Community Behind the scenes at PressConf 2025: where WordPress business leaders gathered for honest conversations, real connections, and a reminder of why community matters.

PressConf Recap: Why Showing Up Matters in the WordPress Community

www.therepository.email/pressconf-re...

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Good day or bad, if it ends with strawberry shortcake then you're doing it right 🍰

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Downside? Turns out I'm priced poshly 😅 Upside? I represent an excellent investment opportunity and have strong market potential 📈 😂

Spent few hours this afternoon turning a microplugin into a miniplugin 😎 ClassAct 2.0 helps craft, sort and cut through CSS classes while working on Blocks in the WordPress Editor.

github.com/0aveRyan/cla...

a man in a flash costume is walking down a street . Alt: a man in a flash costume is running down a street at hyperspeed

It's a good day when you have an appointment to double the down speed of your fiber and 15% increase upload 😎

WPAZ: How to make AI Chatbots do your WordPress without really trying... WPAZ: How to make AI Chatbots do your WordPress without really trying... - 01-intro.md

probably more than you want 😅 From a talk last fall
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An animated GIF showing the Advanced panel in WordPress Block Editor with ClassAct, a plugin for easily visualizing and managing CSS classes in a tokenized input field in addition to the native text input. Changes in one field reflect in the other. Makes for one-click removal of CSS class names and easier visualization on a Block with a lot of classes.

Ever used additional CSS classes on WordPress Blocks and wished it was easier to see and remove them?

github.com/0aveRyan/cla...

Sun streaming through blue sky into the bare and evergreen trees of a rocky peninsula jutting into a frozen pond.

the woods I grew up in are beautiful but very brrr 🥶

lol same

Congratulations, that's wonderful ❤️

Just cycled passwords, OTP tokens, Passkeys and SSH creds in my vault while nostalgia streaming 🧘

Bluesky is truly having an incredible run as Threads' head of product