I'm Ryan Barrett.
I live, work, and play in San FranciscoCalifornia.
I code and write here.
Ryan public@ryanb.org public PGP key
  • Home
  • Search
  • Archives
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Google+
  • GitHub
  • RSS Feed
  • micro.blog
  • Mastodon

Email PGP public key

  • Widgets
  • Search

snarfed.org

Ryan Barrett's blog

Uncategorized

July 3, 2022
  • Instagram
Ryan Barrett 2 Comments

😂

Glen Ellen, California

  • Instagram
Standard
Uncategorized

June 12, 2022
  • Twitter
Ryan Barrett 5 Comments

Two powerful and opposing drives — the desire to enjoy the world and the urge to set the world straight.

– E. B. White

  • Twitter
Standard
Uncategorized

June 9, 2022
  • Twitter
Ryan Barrett 2 Comments

TIL the famous Chinese curse “May you live in interesting times”…isn’t actually Chinese at all.

  • Twitter
Standard
Uncategorized

June 8, 2022
  • Twitter
Ryan Barrett Leave a comment

Love to see this: no-touch security updates for consumer OSes. About time too, servers have had them for a while, unattended-upgrades etc. Now do Windows and Android and browsers. 😎

  • Twitter
Standard
Uncategorized

Bridgy stats update

June 5, 2022
Ryan Barrett 6 Comments

It’s that time of year again…Bridgy stats update! Top line numbers: 6471 accounts, 28M silo responses, 4.7M links, 2.3M webmentions sent, 99k posts published, 102k blog posts processed, 16k blog webmentions received.

Continue reading →

Standard
Uncategorized

June 4, 2022
  • Twitter
Ryan Barrett 1 Comment

Beans, beans, the magical fruit
The more you eat, the more you toot
The more you toot, the better you feel
So let’s have beans with every meal

  • Twitter
Standard
Uncategorized

June 3, 2022
  • Twitter
Ryan Barrett 2 Comments

Global average lifespan in 1900 was just 32 years old. 32! It’s now 73, more than double, just a century and change later.

I knew it had increased, but still, staggering reminder. Just one of many ways the world has improved massively in recent history.

  • Twitter
Standard
Uncategorized

May 28, 2022
  • Twitter
Ryan Barrett 3 Comments

Your brain is not your friend.

  • Twitter
Standard
Uncategorized

May 21, 2022
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
Ryan Barrett 12 Comments

First pianissississimo I’ve ever seen in the wild, maybe. Not sure my fingers are physically capable of playing that quietly.

(Rachmaninoff, Barcarolle, Op. 10 no. 3, top of page 5.)

  • Instagram
  • Twitter
Standard
Uncategorized

May 13, 2022
  • Twitter
Ryan Barrett 12 Comments

When you hear “I do my own research,” translate to “I search for random people on the internet who will tell me what I already believe, in greater detail.”

  • Twitter
Standard
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Ryu by WordPress.com.
snarfed.org
Proudly powered by WordPress Theme: snarfed-ryu.