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Written by Ash Furrow on 2025-01-15 at 21:17

quick question for you

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Written by Ash Furrow on 2025-01-09 at 12:00

Weird. My asshole neighbour finally removed his pro-Trump lawn sign. Around the same time Trump threatened to absorb Canada as a 51st state.

He never thought they’d eat his face, I guess.

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Written by Ash Furrow on 2024-12-30 at 16:44

“The Machine Stops”? I kinda wish it would!

Folks!!

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Written by Ash Furrow on 2024-12-24 at 01:13

Catch Me If You Can is a Christmas movie

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Written by Ash Furrow on 2024-12-17 at 14:28

Jagmeet Singh ARE YOU LISTENING???

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Written by Ash Furrow on 2024-12-17 at 14:27

it sucks that professional ghoul Pierre Poilievre will most likely be our next PM

AND

it also sucks that he lacks the backbone to run a “Polievre does what Tru-don’t” campaign ad

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Written by Ash Furrow on 2024-12-06 at 22:49

@atpfm RE: too young to wear bifocals. I was first prescribed bifocal glasses at the age of 18 months. My eyes improved as I grew and I switched to normal glasses after high school.

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Written by Ash Furrow on 2024-12-05 at 15:07

We need Spotify Wrapped but it just graphs how often one listens to The Mountain Goats’ song “This Year” over time.

Like yes, obviously it goes up near the end of the year. But what’s the trend line here? Those peaks, are they going down over time? Going up? Hmm?

I am interested.

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Written by Ash Furrow on 2024-11-18 at 22:46

No one has reported images not working since I made this change. The changelog of the updated package describes changes to cache-specific headers, so yay?

I still see some 404's in the console log, and clicking images doesn't work. Hrmm. Blog needs some work, maybe a nice holiday project...

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Written by Ash Furrow on 2024-11-18 at 17:36

Or maybe this fixed it? Who knows ¯_(ツ)_/¯ https://github.com/ashfurrow/blog/commit/31f59a01159436d8c88eebb8cab1f21833401a19

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Written by Ash Furrow on 2024-11-18 at 17:32

Hey folks, I'm aware that images aren't loading on this blog post. I'm not sure why, either a problem with Gatsby or Netlify or both.

I won't have time to look into this until tonight. In the meantime, the markdown blog post and images are all on GitHub: https://github.com/ashfurrow/blog/tree/main/blog/2024-11-17-keyboard-rabbit-hole

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Written by Ash Furrow on 2024-11-18 at 14:32

I did some personal writing: a decade of using split keyboards, what I've learned from that whole process, and where I am now in the keyboard rabbit hole. https://ashfurrow.com/blog/keyboard-rabbit-hole/

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Written by Ash Furrow on 2024-11-12 at 14:37

... in case anyone were wondering if I were still on my bullshit about Peter Watts' 2006 novel "Blindsight"

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Written by Ash Furrow on 2024-11-12 at 14:37

Imagine you're a scrambler.

Imagine that you encounter a signal. It is structured, and dense with information. It meets all the criteria of an intelligent transmission. You decode the signals, and stumble:

State management is the real hardest problem in computer science. The only way to truly manage state is to minimize it—

So much easier to reason about without side effects—

Map, reduce, and filter is all you need—

More confident making changes—

Monads.

There are no meaningful translations for these terms. They are needlessly recursive. They contain no usable intelligence, yet they are structured intelligently.

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Written by Ash Furrow on 2024-10-30 at 23:36

I apologize for nothing

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Written by Ash Furrow on 2024-10-30 at 23:36

🎶

A look so quick, a movement so slight

You could almost imagine it didn't just happen

But everything will change, in just one look, one little glance

It's not passing fascination now

It's the scramblers

Uh huh, it's the scramblers

It's the scramblers

Uh huh, it's the scramblers

It's the scramblers

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Written by Ash Furrow on 2024-10-30 at 18:21

“In war, there are no winners, only widows.”

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Written by Ash Furrow on 2024-10-22 at 23:56

I had to use the “Detect Displays” button today. I couldn’t find the button, had to google it.

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Written by Ash Furrow on 2024-10-22 at 23:47

Apple in 1984: computers should be so easy to use that you can accomplish any task using the mouse

Apple in 2024: so, you’ve heard of “holding down the option key”?

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Written by Ash Furrow on 2024-10-22 at 01:08

2008, I was an intern at a small startup in Fredericton. I had a coworker who had just moved home to New Brunswick from India. Her story made an impression on me.

2020, I moved home from abroad too, and reflected on her story. I quote it in my blog post.

2024, and that coworker Susan Holt has just been elected the first woman Premier of New Brunswick!!

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