Ryan Westlund

work

Software Engineering Intern at Awning Tracker LLC

education

Homeschooled and self-taught

joined

Jan 15, 2020

Ryan Westlund

May 30

What if XHR required permission?

#javascript

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1 min read

Webmasters, where's your damn contact form?

#webdev #design #rant

6 1

1 min read

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May 24

What's the standard for listing FOSS contributions in a resume?

#question

1 min read

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May 23

A test of character

#webdev #philosophy #watercooler

1 min read

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May 20

#healthydebateAgainst variable declarations

#philosophy #healthydebate

3 min read

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May 16

Renpy review

#renpy #python #visualnovel

10 min read

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May 15

What's the hardest area of tech skills for you?

#discuss #watercooler

6 3

1 min read

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May 11

#discussBest dev environment setup for a single server?

#architecture #webdev #discuss

20 6

1 min read

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May 11

#discussDecentralize the internet projects?

#discuss #internet

1 min read

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May 5

Stop with the arbitrary restrictions on passwords

#security #webdev

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2 min read

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May 5

#discussHow many bugs in one deployment?

#webdev #story #discuss

1 min read

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May 1

Please exit the top menu cult

#uiweekly #rant #design

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3 min read

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Apr 30

The Concise Python Tutorial, part 7: Classes

#python #tutorial #beginners #codenewbie

31 min read

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Apr 27

I just found about Python dataclasses! OMG!

#python

27 5

1 min read

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Apr 27

The story of my first test

#testing #sqlalchemy

2 min read

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Apr 26

Django review

#django

5 1

8 min read

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Apr 25

#watercoolerI finished my VN and can't describe how good I feel

#watercooler

6 6

1 min read

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Apr 24

Stress of the release process

#mentalhealth

3 1

1 min read

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Apr 22

The slow demise of my laptop

#hardware #laptop #unix #freebsd

6 2

2 min read

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Apr 17

#discussWhat's the worst debugging system you've ever had to use?

#discuss

5 2

1 min read

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Apr 13

Fish alt+ left and right arrows!

#fish #shell

1 min read

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Apr 12

Online privacy is overrated

#privacy

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2 min read

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Apr 12

The Concise Python Tutorial, part 6: Exceptions and IO

#python #tutorial #beginners #codenewbie

12 min read

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Apr 11

The Concise Python Tutorial, part 5: Functions

#python #tutorial #beginner #codenewbie

14 min read

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Apr 10

#healthydebateWhat's the case for data hiding?

#oop #healthydebate #codequality

3 min read

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Apr 7

Nil comparisons

#writing

9 4

5 min read

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Apr 4

#watercoolerThank You, Edge Developers

#edge #browser #watercooler

1 min read

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Apr 3

Performance testing the filesystem

#performance #c #codequality

5 2

2 min read

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Apr 2

The right programming tutorial structure

#codenewbie #healthydebate

8 1

4 min read

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Apr 1

Has your favorite tool actually saved more time than it's costed?

#productivity #markdown

5 1

3 min read

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Mar 29

#watercoolerFear on saving

#watercooler

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1 min read

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Mar 28

The quest for a better markdown processor, part 5

#python #markdown

1 min read

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Mar 28

#watercoolerSLOC counts of various projects

#watercooler #codequality

3 min read

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Mar 27

The quest for a better markdown processor, part 4

#python #markdown

2 min read

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Mar 27

The quest for a better markdown processor, part 3

#python #markdown

1 min read

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Mar 27

The quest for a better markdown processor, part 2

#python #markdown

5 1

2 min read

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Mar 26

The quest for a better markdown processor

#python #markdown

4 min read

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Mar 21

Server side rendering versus JS

#javascript #webdev

18 3

3 min read

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Mar 21

Things we still can't do in CSS

#css #design

45 4

2 min read

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Mar 20

How to make fragment links survive position:sticky

#javascript #design #webdev

2 min read

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Mar 19

#todayilearnedText considered harmless

#todayilearned #sql

2 min read

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Mar 18

#discussIs CSS replacing HTML?

#css #html #discuss

10 5

2 min read

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Mar 18

What are escape sequences?

#beginners #codenewbie

2 min read

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Mar 17

#discussEncapsulation vs abstraction

#discuss #philosophy #codequality

1 min read

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Mar 15

Objectivism in software

#philosophy

3 min read

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Mar 14

"Enhanced" basic web components

#webdev #webcomponents

2 min read

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Mar 13

#helpQuestion about mobile-friendly meta tags

#html #help #accessibility

1 min read

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Mar 12

How to feel about <a ping>?

#html #privacy

7 3

1 min read

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Mar 12

SQLite review

#sql #sqlite

5 min read

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Mar 12

#discussImperative vs functional in human language

#functional #discuss

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1 min read

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Mar 11

#discussWhat is the preferred way to spell dev.to as a platform?

#meta #discuss

9 2

1 min read

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Mar 9

My first vulnerability discovery!

#security #webdev

1 min read

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Mar 8

A mistake I'll never make again, and the pyrrhic victory

#webdev #django #postgres

4 min read

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Mar 7

#discussWhen should I use HTTP verbs?

#design #http #discuss

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1 min read

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Mar 5

#discussDo you like frontend or backend more?

#discuss

17 13

1 min read

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Mar 4

The Concise Python Tutorial, part 4: Mutable types

#python #tutorial #beginners #codenewbie

10 min read

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Mar 3

An overview of programming paradigms

#oop #functional #codenewbie

7 min read

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Mar 2

Is devrant a strictly worse dev.to?

#meta #design

7 5

3 min read

Ryan Westlund

Mar 2

I hate caching

#webdev

7 1

2 min read

Ryan Westlund

Mar 1

Kill software for great glory

#opensource #philosophy

7 5

3 min read

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