Josh Austin

Background My first tech stack was nicknamed the “LAPP Stack”, using Linux, Apache, Postgres instead of MySQL, and vanilla PHP (no Laravel, no CodeIgniter, etc.).

Rust’s tooling is really admirable.

I’m investing heavily in Swift as my next programming language.

As programming enhancements and sophistications gain popularity, many programming languages follow suit.

We wouldn’t tolerate this with a database.

Sometimes you learn the most by doing.

Thinking more and bringing value to the team is still hard work that should be rewarded.

String concatenation in Java can be initially tricky, especially if you come from other programming languages.

The web has changed significantly since I started my first developer role.

Defensive drivers anticipate accidents and bad drivers.