Hi, I'm Ryan 👋

I'm building tools that bring communities together through shared virtual spaces and efficient data structures.

🏗️ What I'm Working On

My primary focus is https://github.com/rdaum/moor - a modern reimplementation of LambdaMOO that's bringing 30+ years of online community building wisdom into the modern era. It's a fully multithreaded, Rust-based virtual world server where users can interact, build, and program together in real-time. Think of it as the lovechild of Discord, Minecraft's creative mode, and a collaborative IDE - all wrapped up in a system that respects the legacy of text-based virtual worlds while embracing modern web technologies.

I also maintain https://github.com/rdaum/rart-rs, a high-performance adaptive radix tree implementation in Rust that provides efficient in-memory storage for ordered data - the kind of foundational data structure that powers databases and key-value stores.
Beyond these, I explore various systems programming challenges through hobby projects, usually involving Rust, distributed systems, or interesting ways to make computers talk to each other.

💭 Why I Do This

I believe in building open infrastructure for online communities. In an era of walled gardens and throwaway apps, projects like mooR represent something different: persistent, programmable spaces where people can truly own and shape their digital environments. These aren't just technical projects - they're about preserving and evolving the collaborative, creative spirit of early internet communities.

🎯 How Sponsorship Helps

Your sponsorship directly supports:

• Continued development of mooR toward its 1.0 release and beyond
• Infrastructure costs for testing and community servers
• Time to maintain and improve open-source data structures like rart-rs
• Documentation and tutorials to help others build with these tools

Every sponsor helps me dedicate more time to open source, ensuring these projects remain free, open, and accessible to everyone who wants to build something amazing.