Toronto · 43.65°N · DuskAn evening edition · 2026Vol. XVII
JoshuaDoodnauth.
A Toronto software engineer making things on the web — keeping field notes from the workshop, and quiet pictures from the streets between.
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/ 01AboutAn introduction
I make things on the web, and quiet pictures in between.
I am a Toronto-based full-stack software engineer with roughly fifteen years of practice. My day job is shipping production web software; my evenings are for writing about it.
The essays here are written for the engineer next to me at the table — practical first, opinionated second, and personal third — covering the web platform, developer tools, automation and the messy parts of building anything that lasts.
The photographs are the breathing room. Mostly Canon EOS R with a 35mm lens, and a Ricoh GR IIIx when the coat needs to be lighter.
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