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.
7 articles from this blog
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.
