Hi, I'm Ryan Feigenbaum
I'm a philosopher-turned-coder here to help you build weird and wonderful things on the internet.
Usually, as a Developer Advocate at GrowthBook, with feature flags and A/B testing.
And always with my dog, Mel.
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Problems are the solution
Hot Blooded
New Constellations
0:00 2:33Is It Time to Make a New Ghost Theme?
New theme incoming?! On building a new Ghost theme and the possibility of doing it on stream.
Reading List
Tracing the thoughts of a large language model \ Anthropic
Anthropic's latest interpretability research: a new microscope to understand Claude's internal mechanisms
How to write exceptional documentation
Writing high-quality developer documentation is a challenging task. This is my personal approach to crafting holistic, comprehensive documentation.
Community managers in action: Leading a developer community for good
GitHub’s Digital Public Goods Open Source Community Manager Program just wrapped up a second successful year, helping Community Managers gain experience in using open source for good.
Just Some Tips Anyone Can Use to Level Up Their Design Game
Below is a cleaned up transcript of a talk I recently gave at work to an audience of mostly developers. I used Claude (Opus) to clean up the transcript and have edited out some sections due to discussions of our internal systems. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the very succinctly titled,
On medium-sized questions in neuroscience
Featuring sensory substitution, fading percepts, and hyperacuity
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