Ryan Bell

Writing functional code, charting strokes gained, and unearthing lost stories. Everything’s connected.

He/Him.

[Ryan Bell @kofno]

X is trash. No one is really on this now that that d-bag own it.. lol

[Ryan Bell @kofno]

I've been building Range Session Tracker, a small Android golf practice app for the driving range.

Now I need Android testers for closed testing.

If you're an Android golfer and want to help, reply or DM me.

https://t.co/CraDwdDkqy

[Ryan Bell @kofno]

Queue depth tells you backlog.

It does not tell you which BullMQ workloads are slow, failing, or spiking.

So I added event-driven workload metrics to bull-der-dash.

Counts, failure rates, p95/p99 duration. No retained-job scans.

https://t.co/QDWDtKp8hz

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

Here’s South African billionaire and the country’s richest man, Johann Peter Rupert, telling Donald Trump that there is no white genocide in South Africa- to his face in the Oval Office.

Enjoy.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: The president showed a video that he said showed more than 1,000 burial sites of white South Africans that he said were murdered. We know that was not true..

Leavitt: No, it is true that that video showed the crosses that represent --

Reporter: Burial sites is what the president claimed.

Leavitt: The video showed images of crosses in South Africa…

Reporter: What protocols are in place for when unsubstantiated information is being put out?

Leavitt: What’s unsubstantiated?

[McNeil @REFLOG18]

Mood

[Ryan Bell @kofno]

🚨 New blog post is live!

I'm kicking off a new series: What’s in the Bag: Java, But Make It Modern

It’s a look at the tools making Java fun again — starting with Kotlin and Ktor.

If you like TypeScript but wish it had threads, this one’s for you:

🔗 https://t.co/WV5SajdcDR

[Ryan Bell @kofno]

“If Kotlin is TypeScript’s JVM cousin, then Ktor is its Deno Fresh. I’m kicking off a new ‘What’s in the Bag’ series over at https://t.co/9ViJI3pZlI — starting with Kotlin’s best features and why it just feels right. #Kotlin #TypeScript #DevTools”

[Ryan Bell @kofno]

What really lowers your golf score?
I modeled 7 years of PGA Tour data to find out.
Strokes gained stats reveal a lot — but not all strokes are equal.

This is Part 1 of The Scoring Model Project.

⛳ Read it here: https://t.co/jwAhJ7jMPA

#golf #datascience #PGA

[Ryan Bell @kofno]

🏌️‍♂️ What’s in the (tech) bag?

Just launched Fairway Tasks, a collaborative to-do app powered by Deno, Fresh, KV, and SSE.

Real-time sync

Minimalist stack

Built in public

Try it ⛳️
🔗 https://t.co/NguOhkri1a
📕 https://t.co/R5hMqgVUvH

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks.

We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

[Stephen @Scuba_Steve26]

Deshaun Watson: “I’m going to come back and prove everybody wrong.”

Joe Flacco:

[Ryan Bell @kofno]

new in jsonous: discriminatedUnion

decode tagged unions in TS with zero boilerplate

✅ strong types
✅ no branching
✅ simple API
full post 👉 https://t.co/oQBgK2f0Jj
#typescript #json #decoders #webdev

[Ryan Bell @kofno]

6/
If you’re testing new tech, rebuilding your stack, or just want a better dev “short game”…
What’s in your bag these days?

#buildinpublic #webdev #deno #freshframework #golflife #typescript #developerexperience

[Ryan Bell @kofno]

5/
🏗️ Want to see how it feels to build in Deno + Fresh?
Curious about collaborative UI without WebSockets?
Here’s the intro post:
🔗 https://t.co/EQUv2CyUys

[Ryan Bell @kofno]

4/
This isn’t a full product launch.
It’s a swing at the fundamentals:
Island architecture
Real-time collaboration

Functional patterns

Developer experience

[Ryan Bell @kofno]

1/
⛳ Devs have bags too.
Golfers obsess over the tools in their bag—clubs they trust, test, and tweak.
So I’m starting a new series: “What’s in the Bag?”
It’s for developers who treat stacks the same way.

🧵👇

[Ryan Bell @kofno]

3/
The first stack in the bag:
🦕 Deno + 🍋 Fresh
Lightweight, secure, native TypeScript, and… weirdly fast.
I’m building a collaborative to-do app using server-sent events to sync updates across browsers.

[Ryan Bell @kofno]

2/
In each post, I’ll pick a tech stack or framework, build something small with it, and share my honest take.
No hype. No gatekeeping.
Just real-world dev tools, explored with a builder’s mindset.

[Seth Magaziner @SethMagaziner]

Income tax is paid mostly by the rich.

Tariffs are paid mostly by the middle class.

That is why we moved to the income tax in 1913. And also why Trump is shifting back to tariffs.