Josh Finnie's Blog
Senior Software Engineer at People Data Labs. Writing about Rust, Go, data, and developer lifestyle.
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Josh Finnie | Senior Software Engineer & Data Nerd
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diffai
I Built a Terminal Diff Viewer for Working with Claude Code
What I Put in Every Go SaaS Before Writing a Single Feature
Product Ready Full Stack Rust
Front End Development with Yew.rs
Django Authentication & Deployment
Building a Cozy Terminal Fire in Rust
Authentication in a Full-Stack Rust
Django Views & Templates
Error Handling & Validation in Rust
Models & the Django Admin
You Can't Afford a House, But Sure, Blame the Avocado Toast
Why Is It So Hard to Find a Software Engineering Job Right Now?
The New Bottleneck: Why Operations Is the Wall AI Builders Keep Hitting
Stop Hedging: Build the API
Persisting Data with sqlx and SQLite
Creating Your First Django Project
Writing Python Docstrings Effectively
TikiCompass.com
PicSkyApp.com
Setting Up AWS SES with a Custom Domain
Adding a Copy Code Button to My Astro Blog
pushfile
PBS.org
BeerLedge
CubeCobra
How Old Is This Metro Car?
Building a Full-Stack Rust Application
Getting Started with Python for Web Development
My Top 20 Albums of 2025
MIT's $1.2 Trillion Iceberg
Why I Switched From Tex Live to Tectonic
The Fatal Flaw in Silicon Valley's AI Gold Rush
Amazon's AI Layoffs: A Marxist Analysis of Automation and Class Power
ASTs Explained: How Abstract Syntax Trees Fix the Chaos of Resume Parsing
ASTs Explained: How Abstract Syntax Trees Fix the Chaos of Resume Parsing
ASTs Explained: How Abstract Syntax Trees Fix the Chaos of Resume Parsing
Rubber Duck Debugging: The Simplest Developer Tool You Are Not Using Enough
Rubber Duck Debugging: The Simplest Developer Tool You Are Not Using Enough
Building a Word Count Tool in Rust: Step-By-Step
FastAPI and React in 2025
Revealing Gender Bias in AI Models
15 Years of Blogging
Music of 2024
Adding ESLint & Prettier to My Blog
Review of Buildspace Nights & Weekends
Review of Buildspace Nights & Weekends
Adding json-ld To My Blog
Trying out HTMX with Rust
Switching to PNPM for Everything Node.js?
Unleashing the Power of Python Collections
Creating a vCard QR Code in Python
24 Hours with Threads by Instagram
Follow Up: Building a Command-Line Application in Rust
A Quick Review of Spotify's AI DJ
Astro Experimental Image and MDX Update
My 2023 Job Search Journey
Creating a "Similar Posts" Component in Astro.js
Taking a Look at Astro 2.0
Building a Command-Line Application in Rust
Why participate in Advent of Code (2022)?
Leaving Twitter for Mastodon
An Obit for Heroku
Chrome Extensions I Use in 2022
Set Up Flask and Restx with Docker
Set Up Flask and Restx with Docker
Set Up Flask and Restx with Docker
Moving from Oh-My-Zsh to Starship & Fish Shell
Getting Truffle and Ganache Working with Docker
My 2021 Books in Review
Current Thoughts on Mobile Website Support
ASDF: How To Set Up Runtimes on Windows Subsystem for Linux
ASDF: How To Set Up Runtimes on Windows Subsystem for Linux
Using WebAssembly (created in Rust) for Fast React Components
My Switch from Gatsby to Astro
Book Review: The 12 Week Year
One Year Later
My 2020 React.js Start-up Process
Upgrading Gatsby to Use Mdx
Upgrading Gatsby to Use Mdx
Hacktoberfest is AWESOME!
Using Latex Through Docker
My Basic isort Configuration
My Basic Python Dockerfile
Setting up SSL for www.joshfinnie.com
Setting up SSL for www.joshfinnie.com
My Coffee Setup (2018)
My Coffee Setup (2018)
New Years Resolutions for 2018 and 2017 Review
New Years Resolutions for 2018 and 2017 Review
New Years Resolutions for 2017 and 2016 Review
New Years Resolutions for 2017 and 2016 Review
I Am Still Here
I Am Still Here
I Am Still Here
New Years Resolutions for 2016 and 2015 Review
New Years Resolutions for 2016 and 2015 Review