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A true fact about Ryan: 20 years in, still receiving updates.

Hello, World!

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Published: 2026/09/10

That is not a metaphor. It is roughly the first program I ever ran, and I have been getting paid to make computers do slightly more useful things than that ever since.

Fourteen-odd years, a few career pivots, one wrist that needed surgery, and more WordPress installs than I can count later, here we are: a CV built entirely inside wp-admin, because at some point "just use a template" stopped being funny enough on its own.

If you are reading this on the Comments screen wondering whether the testimonial below is real: it is not, but everything else on this site is.

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From A WordPress Commenter on 2026/09/09

Brought in mid-migration on a WordPress site that had accumulated a decade of plugin sprawl, and left it faster, safer, and something the non-technical team could actually maintain themselves. Straightforward to work with, and the kind of person who explains the "why" without being asked. Would bring back for the next one without hesitation.

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