Brian Ritchie

BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front): The words “thanks” and “gratitude” aren’t synonyms—they describe fundamentally different experiences.

Looked at my drafts folder today.

Life’s been moving at the speed of a ChatGPT response lately.

Two Thursdays ago, at approximately ‘ungodly hour’ in the AM, I found myself staring into the digital abyss of my Downloads folder. 1,728 files, over 200GB strong and growing like some digital fungus, completely immune to my occasional half-hearted attemp…

The last time I checked, teaching someone to code was considered a positive contribution to society.

Remember when we thought the scariest thing about computers was the Y2K bug?

Remember when your friend convinced you that The Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” was definitely about LSD, and you confidently repeated this “fact” at parties for years?

When your toaster fails to brown your bread evenly, you don’t lose sleep over it.

Turning Data Into Stories (And Sometimes Vice Versa) Because if you’re reading this, you’re probably wondering who’s behind all these posts about data, growth, and the occasional skydiving mishap.

It’s 2025.

Objective: To provide the reader with a detailed writeup on my solution for the Cryptopals Set 1 Challenge 1 as specified in the following link - https://cryptopals.com/sets/1/challenges/1 NOTE : The solution outlined below is not necessarily an optimized…

Objective: To provide a reader with an overview of how we approach the challenge of link rot within the parameters defined by the author and arrive at a high-level workflow that will form the basis of a solution architecture.

Objective: To provide the reader with a broad and simplified explanation of ‘Data Activation’ within a DMP and highlight some of the factors that should be considered by an Organization when evaluating this feature.

TL:DR : This series of posts details my migration of this blog from Wordpress to Hugo.

I stopped writing publicly for a while.

To slay it, one must first understand it.

I’m feeling recursive.

I tend to roll-eyes when someone introduces themselves as a “ Growth Hacker ” or for that matter say — we are looking to do “ Growth Hacking “ Why ?

Today, through a share by Andrew Chen, I stumbled upon an article written and published on the Atlantic with a rather disturbing title and a (I felt) rather unfair conclusion on Twitter as a platform.

I recently gave a talk at the Web Analytics Wednesday Meetup in Sydney.

This is not the end, it has only just begun.

The state of just being.

Fast SSD is Fast.

Devops.

I have been an avid customer of MediaTemple.net for a long time.

Your way is not the only way.

Trust your Employees.

Reduce Your Footprint.

Hiatus and Shift in Thinking So I have been in hiatus with my writing particularly because I had a few last minute stuff to resolve and move back to my home.

Have you ever had one of those days ?

Why.

Tutorials are better with videos.

Because writing lists is so yesterday, sometimes.

A New World I imagine a new world.

Because New Year Goals are too Mainstream As we approach the new year, I am sure there will be a ton of people out there who begin once again a diligent ritual of setting goals.

I wonder what’s out there Have you ever wondered what’s out there ?

Recently, Usenet’s freedom to post information without restriction has been under concerted attack by copyright activists, who have used targeted DMCA takedown notices to harass some of the largest providers out of existence.

I’ll admit.

Cutting Corners.

Any campaign, every campaign in fact needs to have a soul.

Can’t Sleep There comes a time when you feel as if the wind just got blown out of you.

Feeling productive doesn’t necessarily translate to swallowing frogs first thing in the morning but instead focuses on the completion of tasks no matter how minute they appear to be.

This might not be the best comeback post, or it might be possibly the best advice I’ve ever written for you and me.

I have recently been pushing myself to embrace a healthier lifestyle.

The God honest truth is, don’t be poor.

I love being connected.

Most people consider growth to be the most important metric in a startup.

I was recently at the Big Data Singapore meetup and had a chance to chill out with my good friend, John Berns.

When you are starting something, you are bound to stumble upon blocks.

The more I work, the more I realize.