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