λ ryan.himmelwright.net

Hi, I’m Ryan :)

Feel free to learn more about me, this website, what I’m up to now, or even the tech that I use (or used).

As for my ‘blog’… my most recent posts are listed below, but the rest of the archive can be found here. For the remaining pages, explore.

Enjoy!

Recent Posts:

Latest Mumbles:

2026-02-21 @ 23:10 (EST)

Writing this from a nixOS VM installed on a grapheneOS Pixel Fold… I generated the template for this mumble using my normal clojure/babashka script, which is awesome. Now I just need to get my emacs init.el to load without crashing the VM XD…

2026-02-19 @ 10:42 (EST)

Bye Bye Discord, Hello Forum!

I’m almost glad to see Discord make such a single-event screw-up recently that’s causing so many communities to think twice about using them. I would love to see this usher in a wave to bring back decentralized web forums, or at least their modern equivalents. Good on the Hemispheric Views Podcast for helping to lead that charge.

2026-01-27 @ 16:26 (EST)

ThanksAI.md by Rich Hickey

When did we stop considering things failures that create more problems than they solve?

Rich

Well said.