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Ryan Bell

@shankproof

Writing about software systems, developer tools, and what tech can learn from golf (and vice versa).

Joined April 2025

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RBRyan Bellshankproof.devApr 23 · 4 min read

Building Range Session Tracker in Public, and Getting It Ready for Google Play

I've been building a small Android-first Flutter app called Range Session Tracker. The idea is simple: help golfers log range sessions quickly and review distance-control patterns over time without tu

RBRyan Bellshankproof.devApr 16 · 10 min read

Queue Depth Is Not Enough: Adding Workload Metrics to BullMQ

I built bull-der-dash because I wanted a simple, production-friendly way to see what was happening inside our BullMQ queues. BullMQ is excellent. Redis-backed queues, retries, delayed jobs, priorities

RBRyan Bellshankproof.devMay 23, 2025 · 2 min read

What’s in the Bag: Java, But Make It Modern

Part 1 of a new series on JVM technologies, Kotlin, and the tools worth your time in 2025. For the past three decades, I’ve had a complicated relationship with Java. It was one of the first languages I wrote “real” software in, but over the years I d...

RBRyan Bellshankproof.devApr 23, 2025 · 3 min read

What Really Lowers Your Score? Modeling the Truth Behind Strokes Gained

🏌️ What Really Lowers Your Score? I’ve always been curious about what really lowers golf scores. Not just what feels important — but what the data actually says. So I started building a model.And I’m already learning things that surprised me. 📊 No...

RBRyan Bellshankproof.devApr 13, 2025 · 5 min read

What’s in the Bag? Building Fairway Tasks with Deno, Fresh, and SSE

In Part 1 of this series, I introduced the idea of looking at development stacks the way golfers look at their gear. Every tool in the bag has a purpose. Some we reach for without thinking. Others we try out, experiment with, and either adopt or toss...

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Building Range Session Tracker in Public, and Getting It Ready for Google Play

Queue Depth Is Not Enough: Adding Workload Metrics to BullMQ

What’s in the Bag: Java, But Make It Modern

What Really Lowers Your Score? Modeling the Truth Behind Strokes Gained

What’s in the Bag? Building Fairway Tasks with Deno, Fresh, and SSE

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Ryan Bell

About

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Ryan Bell's blogs

Recently published

Building Range Session Tracker in Public, and Getting It Ready for Google Play

Queue Depth Is Not Enough: Adding Workload Metrics to BullMQ

What’s in the Bag: Java, But Make It Modern

What Really Lowers Your Score? Modeling the Truth Behind Strokes Gained

What’s in the Bag? Building Fairway Tasks with Deno, Fresh, and SSE