Joshtronic is the personal site of Josh Sherman, a self-taught software engineer sharing life stories, tech insights, hobbies, and reflections from decades in and around software, creativity, and pop culture.
13 articles from this blog
A guide on how to restore the home screen layout on iOS, including steps to reset and bring back all apps from the App Library.
A personal blog post about replacing Notion with Markdown files and git for note-taking, focusing on privacy and simplicity.
A tech user abandons smart home devices for simpler 'dumb' alternatives due to privacy, connectivity, and reliability frustrations.
Troubleshooting WeeChat using the wrong nickname after SASL authentication on IRC.
Guide to installing the dig DNS lookup utility on Debian Linux using the dnsutils package.
A developer shares their experience switching from Neovim back to Vim, explaining why Neovim's Lua-based approach didn't solve their problems.
Explains the common oversight of whitelisting only the primary IP address of an AWS NAT Gateway and the need to include all subnet IPs.
A software engineer argues that learning to code remains essential despite AI's ability to generate code, as coding skills are needed to evaluate and work with AI-generated output.
Discusses the pitfalls of blindly copying code from AI tools, highlighting issues with confident but incorrect or incompatible snippets.
A developer explains their shift from Arch Linux's AUR to using Flatpak on Debian, driven by security concerns and system stability.
A developer explores using conversational AI to generate niche blog topic ideas, focusing on the process rather than AI-generated content.
A developer explains their switch from ChatGPT to Claude for coding and technical work, citing Claude Code's effectiveness and personal preferences.
A guide to implementing burstable rate-limiting in NGINX to protect self-hosted sites from aggressive scrapers and DDoS-like traffic.
