I'm not Joshing you
I've long been fascinated with how many people there are out there with my name. Not my first name, but my full name. It's not even that there are too many to count. It's that while most don't physically look like me, on paper many of them look exactly like me.
The common theme tends to be "makes music, works in tech". Coincidentally, this is one of the common tropes where I live too.
Inspired by the gathering of the Kyles in Kyle, Texas, I've always wondered if one of the Josh Shermans out there would do something similar. Even before the Kyles did their thing, I've long been collecting my name twins on LinkedIn. Even though I've yet to meet one of my name twins, it seems like we're all decent enough people to accept friend requests from strangers.
Not having enough motivation or confidence to start a gathering of the Joshes, I decided the next best thing would be a weekend project. Given that we're in the middle of the great snowstorm of 2026, this weekend seemed as good as any.
Armed with my trusty non-Josh named LLM, I got to work. An hour or so later, I now run the premier web directory for humans named Josh.
Since I like to shoot low, I doubt I'll get many submissions, so I'm probably going to try to aggregate a bunch of Josh-adjacent sites to include in this portal. Next time I have some free time, I want to add in screenshots of the sites, but I also like the text-based old-school vibe.
If nothing else, the Josh that browses the web via the command-line won't feel shortchanged. Lord, I really hope that Josh is out there.
While it was a decent little time waster on this cold Sunday afternoon, there was an interesting takeaway. Of the small number of Josh sites I've already added, only one had an actual meta description.
I know that a lot of this doesn't matter as much anymore, especially now that robot summaries are all the rage. It's interesting to witness an evident extinction event of something that was once considered essential.
This also made me realize that this site doesn't have a meta description, so that'll be on my TODO list for next week.