Ryan Bilesky

A trophy of God’s grace. Entrepreneur & web developer building @ministry_sites.

[Ryan Bilesky @ryanwebdev]

Bittersweet moment as today I am officially dissolving my freelancing company, X7 Media, LLC.

But don't worry I will be back in 2026 with a new project! I will be working on starting a new company focused of providing websites to churches and other faith based ministries called MinistrySites. I will be sharing more as I build it in the coming year, so if you're even remotely interested in the project please feel free to follow me (what seriously you're not already?).

And if you happen to belong to a church or other faith based ministry who's looking for a website in 2026 feel free to reach out.

[Ryan Bilesky @ryanwebdev]

You make the classic mistake of conflating correlation with causation.

Maybe statistically those who spend more money with Amazon regardless tend to find more value in Prime and thus are more likely to become Prime members.

Or maybe because they're Prime members they buy things from Amazon they were still going to buy, but just form somewhere else otherwise.

[Ryan Bilesky @ryanwebdev]

@Mangled_Daddy @MagneticNorse The same way your or I would know. The flashing lights kinda give it away....

[Ryan Bilesky @ryanwebdev]

🌶️ Who thought designing a login page like this was a good idea? It's nice to have multiple login options but like how does your average user not get confused by this?

Some sites will show a badge next to the "last used" method to point the user in the right direction, but what if they're on a different computer? And you're basically admitting the other links are mostly meaningless.

On my current project I took the Google approach to a login page. Ask for an email only at first, then show the second step. But in my case the second step is contextual. If you have a password it will show a password form. If you use Sign in with (service) you see a sign in with (service) button. If your account has multiple login options you see only the ones you setup on your account.

And like Google it will remember your email on your computer and let you just one click to get to the second step without having to type it in again.

It's cleaner, it guides the user to the most relevant actions for them, and it works on every computer.

[Ryan Bilesky @ryanwebdev]

The short answer is, like with most things, it depends.

You can design a signup form that doesn't leak it either, just accept the form and say please check your email to verify your address to continue but if the email already exist send them an email telling them that instead, so you're only telling them an account exists if they have access to the email.

That said as a web developer my opinion is it depends on what you're building. If I'm building an online banking portal absolutely. Some random SaaS service, probably overkill.

And I'm not alone in this try to login to Google, they break up their login into 2 distinct steps, email then password. And if you enter a non existent email in step 1 they tell you that. Now arguably since most Google accounts are gmail accounts you can also verify existence by simply emailing them and seeing if it bounces the point is if Google decided it's ok to show that on their login form it's probably not a big deal.

But "its best practice" gets ingrained in us. And honestly I'd rather we be overly careful than completely careless.

[Ryan Bilesky @ryanwebdev]

@Samaytwt Windows.

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@rellfy @brysonio @aarondfrancis @zanehengsperger It can also do your taxes. Not sure I'd trust it but you know someone has done it.

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@bradenkeith If I'm on that jury I'm voting not guilty, totally justified.

[Ryan Bilesky @ryanwebdev]

@prieurdp It is safer to back into a space than back out into traffic and pedestrians. Everyone should do it. And if you are that bad at backing up get a self driving (or at least self parking) car.

[Ryan Bilesky @ryanwebdev]

@Mbakaza4L And a newborn has feet but can't walk yet. That doesn't make murdering them ok.

Hope this helps.

[Ryan Bilesky @ryanwebdev]

@mrmikeMTL You all can afford to own a home?

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@dimensionmedia I can't believe you'd so casually deadname X like that...

[Ryan Bilesky @ryanwebdev]

@glwatchdog @ParikPatelCFA Free LeetCode problem solved with every order...

[Ryan Bilesky @ryanwebdev]

@amacarthur Lgtm 🚀

[Ryan Bilesky @ryanwebdev]

@ksdotlewis Its also going to make you a lot more than just 1 burger.

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@hthieblot Geocities

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@_6signxxx Longer lunch just means you're away from home for more of the day that actually sounds terrible.

[Ryan Bilesky @ryanwebdev]

@secularprolife Murder is murder no matter when you commit it.

[Ryan Bilesky @ryanwebdev]

@bradenkeith Oof. Time to look for a new job.

[Erika Kirk @MrsErikaKirk]

“There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.”
— C.S. Lewis