Josh Fruhlinger is a writer and editor who has been covering technology since the first dot-com boom. His interests include cybersecurity, programming tools and techniques, internet and open source culture, and what causes tech projects to fail. He won a 2025 AZBEE Award for a feature article on refactoring AI code and his coverage of generative AI earned him a Jesse H. Neal Award in 2024. In 2015 he published The Enthusiast, a novel about what happens when online fan communities collide with corporate marketing schemes. He lives in Los Angeles.
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