Josh Calder
Software developer and community advocate who blends technical expertise with social impact.
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Josh Calder has open-sourced a new website he built for his wife’s performing arts business. It lets students view a timetable, check fees, find available lesson times, and enrol through a portal. It combines Planetscale and Vercel to make for a fully “serverless” Keystone stack.
February 2023
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