Ash Furrow

  1. Joining Wealthsimple

    I'm excited to announce that today is my first day working at Wealthsimple! I'll be working as a staff developer on their mobile app. In a previous blog post, I teased that this role was a perfect fit for me. Today, I'm excited to share some details. But...

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  2. Eleventy Launch

    As I discussed previously, I've been rewriting this blog in a new tool called 11ty (aka Eleventy - the project's devs aren't consistent so I won't be either). This is the first blog post written in the new blog engine, and the migration is complete! I...

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  3. Work At Your Spikes

    I want to discuss my career trajectory and a chronic issue I've identified with my job satisfaction since becoming a staff developer. It's been subtle and I didn't notice it for years. Maybe this will resonate with you. After a lot of reflection, I've...

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  4. Floating On

    It's with mixed emotions that I'm announcing today is my last day working at Float. I've accomplished a lot here and I'm grateful for the opportunity to help shape such a young company and product team. I'm sad to say goodbye to my coworkers and I wish...

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  5. Yet Another Blog Rewrite

    In 2019, I rewrote this blog with Gatsby. I outlined my reasons in that post, but basically I wanted to use similar technology to build my blog as I used day-to-day at work. Middleman, Bootstrap, and jQuery seemed old and busted. Gatsby, React, and...

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  6. The Murderbot Blog

    I've been a huge fan of The Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells for a few years now, and was very excited to see it adapted to television on Apple TV+. Every adaptation of a story to a new medium has to make creative choices and tradeoffs; it's fun...

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  7. Bias Towards Helpfulness

    I've been using Cursor for coding tasks lately, trying to explore what kinds of work it performs well and poorly. It's pretty good at most simple tasks. It's good-to-okay at some complicated tasks. But then, some simple tasks can stump it – usually in...

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  8. Foresight

    Imagine you are a software developer. It's the early 1970's and you make a living writing Basic Assembly Language to build software for the System/360 mainframe. You are great at your job and you enjoy it. You keep hearing about new "high level"...

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  9. Camera Time

    Recently, I published my first photo blog post since 2018. (Yes I have a separate photo blog, because of course I do.) So what's up with that? Nothing better than a blog post about another blog post. I haven't really been doing a lot of photography since...

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  10. Tarmak

    My keyboard rabbit hole has inevitably brought me to the world of alternate keyboard layouts. While I briefly used Dvorak in university, I was using too many different computers to make it really stick for me. I had on heard of Colemak from Christian...

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