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Josh

@joshcanhelp

Software, digital identity, personal data, mindfulness, parenting, cycling, and exploring nature. See the link below for how I use Twitter now.

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Joined March 2008
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For that past year or so, I've been thinking about and building a system to let you download and work with your personal data. I call it the Personal Data Pipeline and I'm excited to put it out into the world! joshcanhelp.com/personal-dat…
Imagining a Personal Data Pipeline

Imagining a Personal Data Pipeline

I've been thinking a lot about personal data lately: where it's stored, how to extract it, and what to do with it. Here's where I landed.

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Hacker News thread for upvotes and comments, should you be motivated! news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
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It's honestly such a good feeling to see a well-formed PR from a stranger in a personal project 🥰
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have so many side projects that the side project i'm spending my evening on is figuring out which side project to work on
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I wrote a thing about building CLIs with TypeScript: joshcanhelp.com/oclif/
Building a CLI from scratch with TypeScript and oclif

Building a CLI from scratch with TypeScript and oclif

I'm building a pair of CLI programs in TypeScript and decided to use oclif for flag parsing and releasing. I needed something more than the getting started doucmentation they had so I wrote it myself.

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Got a kind attribution on the oclif docs site: oclif.io/docs/introduction

Introduction | oclif: The Open CLI Framework

oclif is a framework for building command-line interfaces (CLIs) using Node.js. You can use it like a simple flag parser, but it's capable of much more. It's designed to be extensible so that you can...

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we’ve been doing a bunch of experiments the past couple of years 🧪 so we wanted to make it easy for you to keep up with all of them 📝 introducing lab.auth0.com one site; all our experiments come experiment with us 👇
Auth0 Lab

Auth0 Lab

Auth0 Lab shaping the future of identity.

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Save 45% on my liveProject series "Federation and Single Sign-On" and other selected titles @ManningBooks: mng.bz/WrEx
I did a thing! After a year's worth of work and a number of delays (on my end), I finally published my first liveProject with @ManningBooks! manning.com/liveprojectserie…
Federation and Single Sign-On with OpenID Connect - Josh Cunningham

Federation and Single Sign-On with OpenID Connect - Josh Cunningham

As the engineer for PrincipalStack, an online publication for new developers, improve user engagement using tools including Node.js, HTML, and npm in 4…

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I'm working on a post with more details but, in the meantime, if you're looking for a way to learn OpenID Connect, OAuth2, and JavaScript, I invite you to pick this up and try it out!
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I would be remiss without a big thank you to the @ManningBooks team that were fantastic to work with. Also, shout-out to @_panva for his excellent open source libraries and @vibronet for his mentorship and guidance when I was first learning these topics!
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7 years old but still accurate and still great advice. sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/…
The Hiring Post

The Hiring Post

The developer job interview doesn't work: it measures a basket of skills uncorrelated with job performance. Work-sample tests, warm-ups, and how to grade your own hiring process.

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I've been thinking a lot lately about how to make more things we're proud of without burning out. Putting aside health (mental and physical), external factors (like global events), and family life ... how can we work together to ship great stuff? joshcanhelp.com/engineering-…
Engineering Velocity from the Bottom Up

Engineering Velocity from the Bottom Up

When I look to increase my velocity, I'm trying to deliver more work I'm proud of without burning out. I want to get the most out of my time and maximize the parts of the job that I enjoy. Here's how.

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Big thanks to all the friends and colleagues who helped me write this over a few years of guidance. And an indirect thank you to @Lethain and @orenellenbogen for keeping me curious about the big picture through what they write and curate.
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Posted on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
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