Josh

  Norman, Oklahoma https://joshwright.com

     



109 Stories by Josh

How to Upload Photos to Instagram With The Highest Possible Quality

It never fails. I spend hours building a nice graphic, post it to instagram, and their compression adds a ton of JPG artifacts destroying...
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Maybe It’s Time to Retire Mathematical Notation

I was helping my nephew with some math homework and he was stuck on a nasty looking formula. I explained it for several minutes,...
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Direct S3 File Uploads for NodeJS

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...
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Should I use Mongo or SQL?

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...
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Facebook Authentication for NodeJS

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...
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Google Authentication for NodeJS

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...
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iScout Reporting & Training

Looking Back Four years ago, I co-founded iScout – a safety reporting and training web application and app. Over time we’ve worked hard to...
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DraftNight Smack Mode

There are two keys to a great fantasy football draft. Grub and a little friendly banter. That’s right, trash talk. The key is keeping...
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Flower Shop Subscription Service

If you live around Norman, OK, you should check out the The Flower Shop on North Porter. They’ve also got a great Instagram account...
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WhichPic – iPhone Photos Game

WhichPic is coming to the iTunes App Store in August 2019. What is WhichPic? WhichPic is photos game/app for iPhone & iPad. Your job...
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