Ryan Townsend

Technology Leader & Distinguished Software Engineer • 20+ YOE in Tech, 10+ as CTO • Public Speaker • &

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This is a fun one: what a 1990s PlayStation game studio taught me about software engineering 🎮 https://t.co/axEYKib4uV

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@drewwilson @iamdevloper @OpacityHQ I’m here for the Mac OS Leopard Time Machine vibes 👌🏻

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@JalisoCSP @nwrug 👋 see you in a few hours!

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UK #Ruby developers: last call for tonight's free @nwrug meetup in Manchester.

We'll be discussing how to handle hundreds of millions in yearly transactions without the complexity that many would lead you to believe is necessary.

Details 👉 https://t.co/YIPBw1eP2D #rubyonrails

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Slides are coming together for @nwrug this Thursday in Manchester. #ruby #rubyonrails

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Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is coming to Safari 🙌 (it's in STP 230!) #webperf

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Webkit: Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 230
https://t.co/8kqllFzY2q

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@sthepot_alt @dhh I didn’t say it was.

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@kacemmmmmm @dhh 💯

I was once met with CxO resistance to adopting Rails, questioning “what if it doesn’t scale?”

I calmly explained that we’d simply extract the problematic areas to whatever is most appropriate.

Hundreds of millions in yearly transaction volume later & that day never came.

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@strzibnyj Pleasure!

More people need to know about these APIs. Been meaning to record a YouTube video on how to make a really robust, high performance typeahead search component… maybe this is the trigger!

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@strzibnyj See: https://t.co/it1IvA66j5

For example, if a user types a backspace, their current in-flight request is invalid, you can use AbortController to cancel it to reduce network traffic.

Those APIs I listed were all vanilla JavaScript.

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@strzibnyj @dev_rafa FWIW `<dialog closedby=any>` hooks into the esc key, not sure if Chrome also maps this to the Android back button.

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Slides are coming together for @nwrug this Thursday in Manchester. #ruby #rubyonrails

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I'm going to be speaking about scaling #RubyonRails to hundreds of millions in client revenue @nwrug meetup on Thursday 16th in Manchester, my old university city 🙌

Come join us 👉 https://t.co/YIPBw1fmSb

[Ryan Townsend @RyanTownsend]

I'm going to be speaking about scaling #RubyonRails to hundreds of millions in client revenue @nwrug meetup on Thursday 16th in Manchester, my old university city 🙌

Come join us 👉 https://t.co/YIPBw1fmSb

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@AmandaBPerino @rails Sorry I missed this! Thanks for the share ❤️

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I've added an Interop 2026 Proposal for CSS Scroll State: https://t.co/mPwmaBUY4o – please upvote!

It would be nice to remove #JavaScript requirement for various popular design patterns we're all using on the web (floaty navs, scroll shadows etc)

cc: @argyleink @bramus #webdev