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hey, i'm ryan👋

I'm a software engineer currently living in London, United Kingdom. I really enjoy solving weird problems and building cool shit, whether that's at work or in my spare time.

I'm currently working at Cloudflare, where I'm helping build a better internet and working on developer tooling.

Outside of work, I'm a colossal nerd and spend a lot of my time playing video games.

Recent Posts

Tokenomics: the 62.5-minute rule for Claude's cache

Is it more efficient to refresh the 5-min cache, let it expire, or just rely compaction? Read More →

Patching Berkeley Mono with Nerd Fonts for Windows Terminal/WSL

How to patch Berkeley Mono with Nerd Fonts, fix OpenType name tables to preserve Windows font families, and get bold/italic working in Windows Terminal. Read More →

Slopdocs: notes for the next clanker

Why I started keeping the planning docs and bug postmortems my clanker generated, instead of letting them disappear with each new session. Read More →

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