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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

52% of the USA's Fortune 500 companies have disappeared since the year 2000. The current AI narrative might be a function for entropy in the market, but there's likely as many leaders treading water that would have drowned post-ZIRP, as there are "disruption" stories. 2026 will be interesting.

David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

In our Quantum Computing community, we have no shortage of "interesting characters". Some of those have become celebrities in their own rights, like Scott Aaronson, who's blog has become a go-to destination for the inevitable "well actually" post after any overly enthusiastic press release.

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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

It's nearly time to talk about a new project we're releasing. The best thing is it's open source, it's for the community, and it's something I know a lot of product teams in Quantum Computing will benefit from. Providing value doesn't always need to be technical or complicated. More on this soon.

David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Here's a look behind the scenes as I get ready for a conference in Tokyo. I've been too busy to do the (overdue) planned headshot photography session, so I wondered... could AI help me repurpose my general avatar? Spoiler: the result in the second image is unintentionally hilarious.

David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I keep thinking about a comment I read. Making me think about all the various local maxima we are experiencing in our current lives, that will zoom off in new directions as progress (and entropy) rolls forward: "Trebuchets are what you get when your Physics knowledge outpaces your Chemistry".

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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Generally an interesting example of how experimentation on the available (NISQ-era) quantum computers yields new forms of near-term algorithms. Not quite replacing classical methods for packing air freight, but great progress in hybrid methodology. More here: www.linkedin.com/posts/hellod...

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#quantumcomputing | David Ryan

Let's look at the new paper from IonQ and Airbus researchers exploring practical #quantumcomputing applications in aviation logistics. Their research tackles the aircraft loading optimization pro...

David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I read the new IonQ and Airbus white paper about #quantumcomputing for transport logistics optimisation so you don't have to... TLDR? A new Multi-Angle Layered Variational Quantum Algorithm (MALVQA) that uses fewer two-qubit gates than standard QAOA approaches, and a novel cost function.

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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The present may be confusing but history has a way of calling things as they are. PS: hello bluesky buddy! Making the slow move over here before madness takes the other place.

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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Remember the time when Paul Graham threw shade at Elon in his famous "The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups" essay? An unexpected gem from 2006.

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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Today I am mostly humming this... youtu.be/1a9cmgKsohU

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YouTube video by Trovaire

David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

If you've worked on the commercial side of quantum, you know this pain, keeping up with market trends and data across industries, personas, and specific algorithms. So I've collected it for you, and organised it in those streams. Going live today, and populating over the weekend.

David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Today I'm pushing the alpha version of OpenQase, an open resource that collects and curates QuantumComputing business cases and industry data.

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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I got tired of juggling multiple platforms for content publishing, and I wanted to see all my content in one view. Bebop is my custom CMS built for content campaigns --> Hashnode, Dev, Bluesky, and Mastodon are working, and there's a built-in local blog too. v0.2.3 is on Github.

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Create Next App - 18 February 2025

Use Loom to record quick videos of your screen and cam. Explain anything clearly and easily – and skip the meeting. An essential tool for hybrid workplaces.

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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This is a post to test if the Bebop CMS is configured correctly for Bluesky.

David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This is a text post from BebopCMS to Bluesky.

David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

That's such a wonderful endorsement. Can't wait to see Zoe now (and in a time where art is more needed than every).

David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

This is a test post from the BebopCMS to Bluesky.

David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Just pushed the 0.2.0 release of the open source Bebop CMS. This version adds cross-posting to Hashnode and Dev as examples of the "Buffer for blog posts" features. Building my own tool specifically for developer advocate content posting, reposting, remote tracking, etc. github.com/ddri/bebop

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GitHub - ddri/bebop: A small content publishing project.

A small content publishing project. Contribute to ddri/bebop development by creating an account on GitHub.

David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Ironically this kind of thing is why I'm building Bebop as an open source project. It's a tool to write/manage content locally but push across "the usual suspects" of blogging and content. Just not on Medium now - but Hashnode and Dev integrations are done.

David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I miss the era of open APIs and developer advocacy being the norm. I lost a few hours tonight extending the Bebop CMS publishing module to include Medium. But the APIs and integration tokens are shut down, regardless of the developer site down out of date saying otherwise. My mistake 😬

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A lovely bit of user experience design from the team at Clay. The "LAST USED" is going to save a lot of wasted time when you count that up across their entire userbase.

Interesting to see the Spotify team putting some of my music on their editorial playlists. Always curious to see where it ends up. open.spotify.com/playlist/37i...

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Alt Here

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I was testing Microsoft's CoPilot after seeing @mustafasuleymanai.bsky.social post about Think Deeper. I asked it my usual selection of questions around quantum computing calculations to see how well it can read Pauli Matrices / Bloch Spheres etc. And then this exchange happened 😂

David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Here are 6.5.354 reasons why I don't use SemVer... (a thread)

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And #seattle or #seattletech people here on the (ironically named for those of us in the Pacific North West) Bluesky?

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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Congrats to @johnonolan.bsky.social and team for the latest release of the open source Ghost CMS (now up to 5.108.2). A great CMS, a great team, and no drama from it's founder/CEO. These are all good things. github.com/TryGhost/Ghost

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GitHub - TryGhost/Ghost: Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters.

Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters. - TryGhost/Ghost

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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

"Hey guys, good news, everyone is talking about the R1 again! We're saved!" "Oh... oh okay... damn".

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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Refer to my earlier comments that we're about to see Quantum Computing companies repositioning to align with the prevailing AI investments. Sovereign funds have propped up the VC pullback from quantum, but there's still a shortfall to be met. Projects like Stargate create the umbrella to do that.

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SoftBank Corp. and Quantinuum Announce Groundbreaking Partnership Toward Practical Application of Quantum Computing

SoftBank Corp. and Quantinuum's partnership will drive commercial value through practical go-to-market use cases and develop business model for a quantum data center‍

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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

did you just endure it, or throw a chrome extension on it to change the styling?

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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Me attempting to look up the POST parameters...

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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

When making developer docs, be sure to use the brightest whitest style possible, with tiny text, and the softest shades of grey the eye can barely detect on the screen. Making them work harder to read your content makes them appreciate it more, and earns their respect as a worthy challenge.

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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Zoom: "Graphic design is my passion"

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Want proper science insights? Find a few people who work in that field and just ask them. A tiny bit of effort gets us genuine insight. No effort makes us a passive consumer of garbage. And AI isn't making this any better (as the number of people quoting incorrect quantum AI quotes shows).

Pro tip: 90% of anything that the general media writes around science or technology is SEO keywords strung together to generate clicks. And 100% of what these generic "technology blog" sites do is just AI-generated nonsense stitching together as many current keywords as possible.

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This is probably the worst era for science media since the church burned people for being witches.

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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

During the day we are professional developers and technical leaders with impeccable communication and business acumen. Meanwhile on our personal side projects...

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What's everyone's preference for static site generators these days? Hugo, VueJS, NextJS, Jekyll, etc?

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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

So we know that Threads hates links to other content. LEt's see what this does on Bluesky...? Side note: lovely #triphop and #downbeat grooves for those that love the likes of Morcheeba and Massive Attack and Mr Scruff as much as I do. open.spotify.com/album/3ZYgGP...

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Days Like These

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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

New favourite thing. The public domain image archive has an "infinite view" that is... really hypnotising. Check this out: pdimagearchive.org/infinite-view/

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Public Domain Image Archive

David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Solid example of how to communicate about AI and privacy options from Miro. While they are gathering more data from free tier users, they clearly state the reasons, what they aren't doing, and the method to opt out.

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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Heads-up if you're in the Bay Area in February. Bill Gates will be doing a talk at the @computerhistory.bsky.social museum. One of the tech history institutions I'm happy to be a supporting member of.