Hi, I'm Josh. I work at Journey, and I write about engineering leadership and technical lessons learned.

The Tech Lead Trap
Inheriting a Struggling Team
Giving Hard Feedback
Making Technical Decisions Stick
Scope Creep and How to Fight It
Sentry AI Tracing with Laravel's AI SDK
When to Say No
Managing Up
Working with Designers
Working with Product Managers
Running Effective 1:1s as a Tech Lead
Balancing Coding and Leading
Your First 90 Days as Tech Lead
What is a Tech Lead?
Serving Markdown for AI Agents
Building AI Agents with the Claude Agent SDK
What is an AI Agent?
Building Production-Grade Real-Time AI Voice Conversations
Sentry AI Tracing for OpenAI in Laravel
Eval Testing LLMs in PHPUnit
Using Hill Charts for Progress Tracking
Four Questions I Answer Every Week
The Local Optimisation Trap
Judgement
Why Less Is More
Shaping Team Boundaries for Flow
Navigating Flight Levels
Building an AI Application: Lessons from Lenny's Vault
Liability Mapping your Tech Debt
Getting in the Room at a Remote Company
Four Pillars of Engineering Leadership
Estimation, Pragmatism, and the Real World
Making Impossible States Impossible
Cycle Time Isn't Your North Star
Culture Follows Incentives
Product Engineers
Build vs Buy vs Run
Thoughts on GitHub Copilot
Reconsidering Tech Debt
Engineering Toil - Seeing the Unseen Work
Choose Boring Tech
From Scepticism to Collaboration with LLMs
Don't Improve Coordination, Eliminate It
Optimising teams through the Theory of Constraints
Improve LLM prompts using LLMs
Doing Leveraged Work
Finding Your Place: Pioneers, Settlers, and Town Planners
Stuff I learned at cinch
Notes on An Elegant Puzzle
Notes on A Manager's Path
Managing Software Projects
How to quickly plan and estimate an MVP
Using Terraform to build Twilio TaskRouter Infrastructure
Elm JSON Decoders
Using elm-form-validate
Global query parameters with Ember
Using the JSON API spec in a Laravel API
Immutable and namespaced CSS made easy
React Native & continuous deployment
Lessons learned from building an app with React.js