Hi 👋 I’m Josh

I’m Josh Sherman, a product-minded engineer that’s been developing web applications since before the turn of the century. I’ve been fortunate enough to lead teams for $10MM+ startups and scale systems to tens of millions of users.

I'm also the founder of Holiday API, Head of Engineering and Emoji Specialist at Mailshake, and author of the best damn Lorem Ipsum Library for PHP.

This site is a collection of my writing over the last 16 years with a heavy focus on technology, development, and occasionally, fermentables.

The musings of one Josh Sherman

Latest Articles

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