Josh Duff

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My posts are either about making software or personal reflection. Or both.

Top posts

(Software)
Eschatology of software
My worldview of code
(Software)
Communication culture
There's a discussion style spectrum that I haven't seen many people talk about
(Personal)
My appendix experience
My appendectomy felt kind of surreal so I wrote it down

All posts

  1. The joy of inventory software
    Reality has a surprising amount of detail
  2. Communication culture
    There's a discussion style spectrum that I haven't seen many people talk about
  3. Merle Dean Kilgore
    My grandfather
  4. Contra Jane Jacobs on a biblical history of cities
    She wrote a good book that prompted a fairly specific thought
  5. My appendix experience
    My appendectomy felt kind of surreal so I wrote it down
  6. The first letter I wrote to Anna
    The woman who became my wife
  7. Eschatology of software
    My worldview of code
  8. How to remote pair-code usefully
    Talking while screensharing
  9. Writing SQL for applications
    Opinions from a decade of writing queries
  10. Side project post-partum: Communal Checklist
    I made a fancy todo app
  11. Why your webapp needs a state-based router
    Business software has lots of moving parts and routing is important
  12. Writing Noddity
    I made a blog/wiki platform
  13. How Should We Then Drive?
    Christians should drive differently
  14. Profanities and other funny words
    Funny code comments
  15. Sandwich war crimes: the Dirty Mother
    A ridiculous sandwich recipe
  16. Run a query for every table in a database
    Use SQL to wrangle your database
  17. Logical errors in queries: DO NOT WANT
    How to avoid a common JOIN mistake
  18. Convert blocks of text to sentence case in MySQL
    A fairly specific SQL procedure
  19. Running my first campaign!
    A fun cowboy RPG
  20. My accomplishment for the day: a MySQL quine!
    Faffing around with SQL