https://joshaustin.tech/Recent content on Josh AustinHugo -- 0.121.2en-usTue, 24 Feb 2026 22:27:53 -0600https://joshaustin.tech/blog/im-investing-in-ruby/Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:27:53 -0600https://joshaustin.tech/blog/im-investing-in-ruby/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.). At the time, I thought it was a superior tech stack and would make fun of Ruby. Mostly to tease the college classmates who I perceived to be “fanboys”. During then, and again in 2024, I had some low-key curiosity around the Ruby programming language and picked up a copy of the pickaxe book.https://joshaustin.tech/blog/on-rusts-tooling/Sun, 08 Sep 2024 23:11:04 -0500https://joshaustin.tech/blog/on-rusts-tooling/Rust’s tooling is really admirable.https://joshaustin.tech/blog/swift-first-impressions/Wed, 19 Jun 2024 23:32:31 -0500https://joshaustin.tech/blog/swift-first-impressions/I’m investing heavily in Swift as my next programming language.https://joshaustin.tech/blog/java-is-becoming-rust/Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500https://joshaustin.tech/blog/java-is-becoming-rust/As programming enhancements and sophistications gain popularity, many programming languages follow suit.https://joshaustin.tech/blog/kafka-as-an-antipattern/Sun, 24 Sep 2023 09:28:51 -0500https://joshaustin.tech/blog/kafka-as-an-antipattern/We wouldn’t tolerate this with a database.https://joshaustin.tech/blog/what-i-learned-from-writing-a-raytracer-in-rust/Sat, 22 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500https://joshaustin.tech/blog/what-i-learned-from-writing-a-raytracer-in-rust/Sometimes you learn the most by doing.https://joshaustin.tech/blog/seniors-should-code-less/Thu, 13 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500https://joshaustin.tech/blog/seniors-should-code-less/Thinking more and bringing value to the team is still hard work that should be rewarded.https://joshaustin.tech/blog/how-to-concatenate-strings-in-java-like-a-pro/Sat, 18 Feb 2023 01:00:00 -0500https://joshaustin.tech/blog/how-to-concatenate-strings-in-java-like-a-pro/String concatenation in Java can be initially tricky, especially if you come from other programming languages.https://joshaustin.tech/blog/getting-started-with-rife2/Sun, 29 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0500https://joshaustin.tech/blog/getting-started-with-rife2/The web has changed significantly since I started my first developer role. So have web frameworks. So have programming languages!https://joshaustin.tech/blog/those-sneaky-nullpointerexceptions/Tue, 18 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500https://joshaustin.tech/blog/those-sneaky-nullpointerexceptions/Defensive drivers anticipate accidents and bad drivers. This lowers the chances of getting into accidents.