Ryan Wold

Hi, I'm Ryan Wold đź‘‹

from Vacaville, California, USA.

Civic technologist. Gardener. Interested in how dynamic systems work.

Professional

Software engineer and consultant. I help teams ship well-built software, continuously.

Public Service

Better public service delivery has been a thread throughout my career.

These are notes to myself. Sorta like a sketchbook.

Projects

All projects

Building

  • Adaptics Building · platonic thoughtshapes and non-geographical maps

  • Auto Screenshot logo

    Auto Screenshot Building · A ruby .gem that captures screenshots during browser-testing.

  • Bitblocks Building · Bitblocks is an indexer for the bsv blockchain.

  • Breathe Building · Navy seal breathing technique.

  • CityCamp Building · An open, participatory unconference for civic innovation

  • Commons Building · Smarter public spaces

  • Cubican Building · A mobile art client.

  • Cyberfolk.org Building · Blog-form thoughts on social implications of cybernetics

  • Eligibility Rules Building · Machine-readable eligibility rules for public services

  • Gov as Platform Building · how civic services, data, and policy connect across layers of government

  • GTD Skill for Claude Code Building · A Claude Code skill suite for Getting Things Done — daily audits, weekly reviews, Trello sync, morning briefings, and cross-project handoffs via .claude/inbox/.

  • Handup Building · Finding "good homes" for household items.

  • Harmonograph Building · Little rhythms

  • HiHat Building · A mobile music client.

  • iTermSidebar Building · macOS menubar app that shows iTerm2 windows in a floating sidebar, organized per screen

  • Jurisdictional logo

    Jurisdictional Building · A unified interface to government

  • LiveWallet logo

    LiveWallet Building · BSV Wallet built with Elixir Livebook

  • Loan Calculator logo

    Loan Calculator Building · A tool to comparing the charts of 2 home loans.

  • Modular City Building · An open source website template for cities and public agencies

  • Napa Valley Stream Fest Building · Website for a growing media film event in Napa Valley

  • Neighbor Shed Building · Share tools and resources with your neighbors

  • NestBridge Building · Coordinating local service providers

  • Ogenda Building · Open agendas for public meetings

  • Open Solano Building · Open-source governance in Solano County

  • Opentecture logo

    Opentecture Building · Open-source modular housing

  • Ourquity Building · Shared community equity models based on good will and abundance

  • Polisee.org Building · Visualizing policy

  • Product Cycle Building · User-centered artifacts commonly used when iteratively designing a software product

  • Qart logo

    Qart Building · Peer-to-peer commerce

  • RPMS Building ·

  • Shepherd of the Hills Preschool - Vacaville, CA logo

    Shepherd of the Hills Preschool - Vacaville, CA Building · Website development for a local Christian Preschool

  • Student Lottery logo

    Student Lottery Building · A small web app to conduct a randomized Student Lottery for enrollment.

  • TaxTracker.org logo

    TaxTracker.org Building · An open-source list of taxes

  • Team Bitcoin logo

    Team Bitcoin Building · Bitcoin is for everyone

  • Tone Building · Vibes, binaural beats.

  • Touchpoints Building · Service modeling and User feedback

  • Visible DAO logo

    Visible DAO Building · Experimenting with Transparency in the market

  • Wardley.app logo

    Wardley.app Building · Value chains are re-shaping rapidly

  • Yoga Building · Yoga poses and sequences

Maintenance

  • Bookshelf logo

    Bookshelf Maintenance · A list of books I've read.

  • Personal Maintenance · Personal musings, notes, and projects

Notes

All notes

Where is my mind?

Let's chat about

  • Open-source software development. I write a lot of software using things others have built and I try to share back when possible. I prefer to work in the open.
  • Bitcoin. Bitcoin is for everyone. I'm a fan of Bitcoin, the Scalable Version. I believe in Satoshi's Vision.
  • Baseball. I grew up playing baseball (SS, P). Walt Weiss era A's fan. Tim Lincecum era Giants fan. Nolan Ryan: the greatest. New fan of Elly de La Cruz.
  • Modular Architecture. Houses should work more like Legos™️. Distributed fab labs in communities can support a paradigm where we can more readily collaborate and evolve our homes.
Random Quote

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Tiny tools

Small things I built for my own workflows. You might find them useful too!
Image Tool

Cropper

Quickly crop an image to a specific size (good for social media previews)

Visualization D3.js

Sketch Data

A data-driven document for seeing a single dataset in a) freeform or b) projected with defined axes

Identity Open Source

DID Page

Generate a DID (Decentralized Identifier), and generate a Credential, and verify it

Ryan Wold

Want to talk?

If something here sparked a thought, I'd like to hear it. Grab 30 minutes on my calendar, or send me a note.

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