Ash Furrow

  1. 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…

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  2. 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…

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  3. 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…

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  4. Tarmak

    My keyboard rabbit hole has inevitably brought me to the world of alternate keyboard layouts. While I briefly used Dvorak in university, I…

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  5. Personal Timeline

    This week at work, I'm participating in a group event where we share personal timelines of ourselves, to get to know each other better. I…

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  6. Keyboard Rabbit Hole

    Content warning: this post contains medical discussions. Quickly after I began my career as a full-time software developer, I developed pain…

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  7. Four Years in New Brunswick

    Today – Halloween – marks four years since my wife and I returned to live in New Brunswick . I feel compelled to reflect and share. It…

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  8. Year of Recovery

    This post comes with a content warning for a medical discussion. In late 2019, I discovered I had a health condition that needed surgery to…

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  9. Asking for Help as a Software Developer

    I was talking with a software developer friend the other day. They were asking for suggestions on how to increase their coding output. They…

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  10. New Keyboard

    A few months ago, I came across this amazing video from Christian Selig detailing how he built his own keyboard . And I mean built it…

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