113 Stories by Josh
I’ve always wanted to build a Halloween monster that would give out candy. This year was perfect since we were all trying to “socially... In June, TikTok tricked me into thinking I could do woodworking. I made some floating shelves and only cut myself badly once. ;) For... This is embarrassing. I downloaded TikTok a few weeks back and was quickly sucked in to its maniacal algorithm. Apparently I’m a sucker for... It’s the middle of June, so of course my kids are waist deep planning their halloween costumes. Apparently a $20 Amazon costume won’t cut... It never fails. I spend hours building a nice graphic, post it to instagram, and their compression adds a ton of JPG artifacts destroying... I was helping my nephew with some math homework and he was stuck on a nasty looking formula. I explained it for several minutes,... I’m on a mission to document the most challenging parts of software development. Client side uploads to S3 is absolutely top 5. Navigating AWS... 5 years ago I co-founded iScout.com – a SAAS which now collects millions of safety reports and training completions. For weeks I struggled to... For some reason, OAuth always seems overly complicated. Documentation stinks and errors are vague. Abstractions like Passport.js add a mountain of complication while barely... Nothing makes me sweat like OAuth. Documentation is sparse and errors are cryptic. Libraries like Passport.js just add a poorly designed abstraction to an...
