Josh's Blog

Tue Jan 5, 2021 @ 4:05 pm

What's going on, 2021

Back in May, when the US passed 100,000 Covid deaths, the NYT ran a sadly beautiful interactive piece that attempted to memorialize and contextualize …

"all this"

I’ve been pretty down since the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg late last week. There’s a lot of folks online with dire predictions for the future …

The Great Unknowns

The virus response in the US, UK, and NL are all controversially underwhelming. I don’t know what to think. I don’t like the idea of being …

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Wed Dec 11, 2019 @ 3:54 pm

No time to say hello, goodbye

A few months ago, we packed up and moved back to the Netherlands. It’s been a decade, so I signed up for an intensive, four-day-a-week Dutch language …

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Sun Oct 14, 2018 @ 4:21 pm

Four decades, five places

In a few weeks, I will turn 40. This year, I have found myself thinking a lot about where I’ve been.

My first birthday (year “0”, if …

Blow

We are, each of us, a little wind. Mostly, we are good little winds. We blow a little, here and there. We do what we can to increase joy and diminish …

Not-so-wondrous strange

I watched Stranger Things in a remarkable-for-me 4-day binge this past weekend. I had mixed feelings for the first episode, but it gradually won me over …

Help! Why does git think I have been decapitated?

Or: all about “detached HEAD” in git

You’ve been using git for awhile and you’re finally getting the hang of it. Then one day …

2013

Ah, Ye Olde Neglected Blogge.

I wrote a year-in-review thing a few years ago and kinda meant to make a habit of it, but other things kept getting in …

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Wed Sep 18, 2013 @ 9:16 pm

Working like a Hubber

GitHub’s Approach to Distributed Work as I Have Experienced It

When I told people I was joining GitHub, there was a familiar response from friends and …

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