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Josh Ghent

A simple, slightly opinionated guide to event driven architectures

Josh Ghent

A collection of small, minimalist tools, and why this class of software is worth protecting.

Josh Ghent

Simple Cron for downloading your favorite Youtube playlist

Josh Ghent

Creating Application health checks seems simple, but is easy to get wrong. Here's how to create an awesome health check for your Application or API

Josh Ghent

How a seemingly simple problem was more challenging than expected

Josh Müller

Everyone is just 2-3 decisions away from a completely transformed life. I read this idea years ago and it’s stuck with me. It almost feels too simple to be true; but more and more, I find myself agreeing with it. The word decision comes from Latin roots, meaning “to cut off.” The picture is that of severing one branch or path, so you can put all resources into another.

Josh Müller

Have you ever logged onto public WiFi, but when you try to open a web page that you already had open, it just won’t load? Sometimes this is because the WiFi is simply not working. In cases like that, it’s probably better to just pull out a book and read, instead of fighting a hopeless battle with bad WiFi. 🙃 Other times, however, the WiFi is actually indeed working, but it’s wai

Josh Müller

When a new project, decision, or chapter-of-life comes our way, there also quite often seems to come a simple but nearly-invisible choice for us to make: We can chose the easy path , where we proceed “the way we’ve always done it”, going forward well-founded on the ideas and knowledge that we’ve already acquired and tested over the years… Or, we can chose the more sc

Josh Müller

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add , but when there is nothing left to take away .” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry “Once you get fancy, fancy gets broken.” ~ Morgan Spurlock “Leadership is simple. But simple doesn’t mean easy.” ~ (paraphrased) Jocko Willink

Josh Müller

We have within each of our skulls an inbuilt technology that allows us to take our very thoughts — no matter how simple or complex — and through either rhythmic vibrations of air molecules propagating in waves between our mouths and our recipients’ ears, or through multiple series of lines of chaotic squiggles, dots, and shapes representing those vibrations in visual form, we have the capaci

Josh Müller

3D Viewer Desktop Controls

Joshua Seigler

Simple italian pasta salad

Joshua Morris

An independent game designer who has spent more than a decade making wonderfully strange experiments out of familiar video games, performance art, office work, Greek mythology, empty software projects and the simple question of what happens when you change the rules.

Joshua Morris

Apple hid a postal barcode under ultraviolet light so a thank-you envelope could stay designed. That is how much work simplicity actually takes.

Joshua Morris

BobDaHacker reports a simple tl;dv authorization failure exposing meeting metadata for tens of thousands of users, then months without a meaningful vendor response—security culture is what happens after the report lands.

Joshua Morris

LetsSeal is an open-source tool that creates cryptographic seals so anyone can verify a file has not changed since it was published—arguing authenticity often matters more than secrecy, especially as software supply-chain attacks become more common.

Joshua Morris

Dave Winer’s How the Web Got Gunked argues platforms replaced replaceable web parts with accounts, proprietary feeds, and locked-in writing—offering a simple test: if a piece cannot be replaced without permission, it is not part of the open web.

Joshua Morris

Nathaniel Peters built Uncovered around a simple idea: judge a book by its writing instead of its cover. The site shows opening pages without revealing the title or author, so you decide whether the writing alone is enough to keep reading.