Hello, friends. I’m Josh Beckman. I make things — mostly software, mostly for others. This is where I keep years of writing, notes, and reading highlights — a knowledge garden built in the open. I write about software craft, building, and whatever I’m learning. Read more about me, what I believe, or jump to navigation.
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Contributing to Open-Source Should be Required, Like Jury Duty
A note I found in my journal, from seven years ago, on the day I wa...
Directed Notifications for Claude Code Async Programming
This afternoon I leveled up my previous Claude Code notifications. ...
First we built a user interface (UI) when the application was just ...
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By going slower, you will learn faster.
Mastery means doing without thinking.
Taken from Tom Sachs.
I’m glad I wrote those dot diagrams by hand all those years ago. B...
from 2389 Research, Inc.
This was easier or harder than what my daughter made it through in ...
Even if Secretary Hegseth backs down and narrows his extremely broa...
from Dean W. Ball
I have watched death as it happens, and I have watched birth. What ...
from Dean W. Ball
The season is: Insects Awaken ◇
Bugs surface from hibernation
